Rains to lash Southern AP as another cyclone develops
Another cyclone seems to be forming over the Bay of Bengal almost a week after Cyclone Lehar hit the coast.
Hyderabad: Another cyclone seems to be forming over the Bay of Bengal almost a week after Cyclone Lehar hit the coast. The Indian Meteo-rological Department (IMD) has said that the depression in the South-West of the Bay of Bengal will intensify into a deep depression over the next 24 hours and then turn into a cyclone.
The US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Centre has already classified it as a 06B category cyclone. However, the probability of it hitting the Andhra Pradesh coast is low as the cyclone is expected to take a North-Easterly path over the next few days.
In its latest bulletin, the IMD said, “It would intensify further into a deep depression during next 24 hours and subsequently into a cyclonic storm”. The deep depression is likely to move North over the next 48 hours, intensifying simultaneously, and then move in the Northeastern direction, away from the coast.
It is currently stationed 266-km Southeast of Chennai. Rainfall has been predicted along coastal Tamil Nadu while Southern Andhra coast is also likely to witness showers over the next 48 hours. The US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Centre predicted a similar trajectory for the system.