Cyclone Tej Intensifies Into Extraordinarily Extreme Cyclonic Storm
It’s then predicted to recurve and transfer north-northeastwards. (Representational)
New Delhi:
Cyclone ‘Tej’, brewing within the Arabian Sea, intensified into a particularly extreme cyclonic storm on Sunday and is headed in direction of the Yemen-Oman coasts, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) mentioned.
The cyclonic storm is predicted to maneuver northwestwards and cross the Yemen-Oman coasts between Al Ghaidah (Yemen) and Salalah (Oman), near the east of Al Ghaidah round midday on October 24 as a really extreme cyclonic storm with wind speeds of 115-125 kmph, gusting to 140 kmph, it mentioned.
“The very extreme cyclonic storm ‘Tej’ intensified into a particularly extreme cyclonic storm and lay centred about 160 km east-southeast of Socotra (Yemen), 540 km south-southeast of Salalah (Oman), and 550 km southeast of Al Ghaidah (Yemen) at 8:30 am on Sunday,” the IMD mentioned in a press release.
The IMD additionally mentioned the melancholy over the west-central Bay of Bengal is prone to additional intensify right into a deep melancholy by early Monday morning.
It’s then predicted to recurve and transfer north-northeastwards through the subsequent three days in direction of Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal coasts, the Met workplace mentioned.
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