Kolkata: The India Meteorological Department informed on Sunday night that the Depression over southeast BoB near latitude 10.9°N & longitude 93.2°E, about 200 km north-northeast of Car Nicobar(Nicobar Islands), 100 km south-southeast of Port Blair(Andaman Islands). To intensify into a deep depression in the next 12 hrs and into a cyclonic storm in the next 12 hrs.
IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra informed that the cyclone will not make landfall in the Andaman Islands. “The weather system would move nearly northward along and off the Andaman Islands towards Myanmar and adjoining south Bangladesh coast,” he said.
On Monday, bad weather over the southeast Bay of Bengal is predicted to intensify into a cyclonic storm, according to the India Meteorological Department.
Cyclone Asani is expected to proceed along and off the Andaman Islands, threatening Myanmar and the south Bangladesh coast, according to the forecast service.
Around 150 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel have reportedly been deployed and are ready at different locations.
(SMIT SONI)