Cyclone Burevi gains strength, to cross Indian coast on Dec 4 morning
Storm Likely To Intensify Further: IMD
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:02.12.2020
Southern districts of Tamil Nadu are bracing for extremely heavy rainfall for the next three days as the cyclonic storm Burevi over Bay of Bengal lay 800km from the Kanyakumari coast on Tuesday evening. It is likely to intensify further before crossing the Indian coast on December 4 early morning between Kanyakumari and Pamban, after making landfall near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka on December 2.
The system is expected to bring heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in many parts of south Tamil Nadu and light to moderate spells over Chennai for the next 48 hours. Burevi will be the second cyclonic storm in a week making landfall in Tamil Nadu after Cyclone Nivar crossed near Marakkanam on November 25 night. It is also the third cyclone, after Amphan and Nivar, to form over Bay of Bengal this year. The name "Burevi" has been given by Maldives, which means black mangroves.
IMD said at 5.30pm, the deep depression, which had strengthened from a depression on Tuesday morning and was moving at 9kmph, intensified into a cyclonic storm and lay centred at around 400km east-southeast of Trincomalee and 800km eastsoutheast of Kanyakumari.
The storm is likely to intensify further before making landfall close to Trincomalee on December 2 evening or night with a wind speed of 75-85kmph gusting to 95kmph. On the morning of December 3, the system is likely to emerge over the Gulf of Mannar and adjoining Comorin area. “It would then move west-southwestwards and cross south Tamil Nadu between Kanyakumari and Pamban on the early morning of December 4 between 2.30am and 5.30am,” IMD said.
According to IMD’s forecast track of the cyclone, the storm is likely to emerge again over the sea near south Kerala coast after crossing the south Tamil Nadu coast.
Satellite image of Cyclone Burevi released by the India Meteorological Department on Tuesday evening
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