While the public gear up to face ‘agni natchathiram’ that commences on Saturday, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) website has some happy as well as disturbing news.
The IMD portal says there are possibilities of summer convective rains hitting the southern parts of the state, which could gradually move up northwards and bring relief from scorching sun. But there are also unpleasant signs, as formation of low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal is expected within a few days.
The National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting which is a research-based organisation under Ministry of Earth Sciences has foreseen a cyclone to cross somewhere between northern TN and southern Andhra Pradesh on May 13. The conclusion drawn based on numerical weather models show that a system could form east of Sri Lanka and reach TN or AP coast in another 10 days.
Dr Y.E.A. Raj, deputy director general of meteorology, Regional Met Centre (RMC), said that the models are indicating a chance for low pressure in the Bay of Bengal. “We are yet to authenticate the possibility of a depression moving towards TN,” he added.
Eight systems of depression or cyclonic storm were formed in the Bay of Bengal in the last 12 years in the month of May. Astro-Meteorologist S. Ramachandran has predicted the possibility of cyclone hitting north TN and south AP between May 14 and May 18 due to planetary positions.
Taken from http://www.deccanchronicle.com
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