Extreme cyclonic storm ‘Mandous’ weakened by a spherical as a traditional cyclone the over south-west Bay of Bengal on Friday afternoon, as predicted by India Meteorological Division (IMD), because it spun away to 280 km North of Triconamalee and 230 km to North-East of Jaffna, each in Sri Lanka, on Friday afternoon.
It was since situated off the South Tamil Nadu coast at a distance of 180 km East-North-East of Karaikal and about 260 km South-South-East of Chennai. Being monitored by the Doppler Climate Radars at Karaikal and Chennai, ‘Mandous’ was anticipated to cross the coast between Puducherry and Sriharikota round Mamallapuram as a traditional cyclone.
Landfall in into early hours
The landfall can be accompanied with most sustained winds of 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph from midnight of Friday to the early hours of Saturday. The IMD has additionally stated {that a} follow-up cyclonic circulation will develop over the South Andaman Sea, to which ‘Mandous’ additionally claims its roots in an analogous format, over the following three to 4 days (round December 13).
IMD’s numerical mannequin runs had hinted at this just a few days in the past and carried in these columns. In truth, the US Nationwide Centres for Environmental Predictions warned of a extra expansive part of rainfall over your entire coast from from south Andhra Pradesh to south Tamil Nadu throughout the week from December 17 to25 as an intensified ‘low’ strikes to only South of Sri Lanka.
Path of Mandous remnant
A remnant of ‘Mandous’ is forecast to roll its method throughout south inside Karnataka, Rayalaseema and coastal Karnataka raining it down over the area over the following couple of days. It’ll step out into the south-east Arabian Sea the place it might construct additional traction. By this time, the cyclonic circulation as talked about above would have materialised over the South Andaman Sea.
The ‘Mandous’ remnant will trigger mild to reasonable rainfall at most locations over north inside Tamil Nadu, Rayalaseema and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh on Saturday with heavy to very heavy rainfall at remoted locations and heavy rainfall at remoted locations over south inside Karnataka. On Sunday, heavy rainfall is anticipated at remoted locations over south inside Karnataka.