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Kolkata: Severe Cyclone Bulbul gusting at wind speeds of 135 km per hour made landfall near Sagar Islands in West Bengal at 9 pm on Saturday. Sagar Island is about 120 km south of Kolkata. It now lays centred about 75 km east-northeast of Sundarban National Park in Bengal, as per the India Meteorological Department.
There are six RSMCs in the world, including the India Meteorological Department (IMD), and five TCWCs. As an RSMC, the IMD names the cyclones developing over the north Indian Ocean, including the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, after following a standard procedure.
"Amphan", pronounced as "Um-pun", means sky. The name was given by Thailand in 2004, years ago. The name comes from a list by a grouping of countries, World Meteorological Organisation/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific or WMO/ESCAP.
India Meteorological Department said Cyclone Fani will move towards Bangladesh after weakening. Follow LIVE updates here. The wind speed will be between 90-110/115 km per hour when it enters West Bengal towards Friday evening, Bandyopadhyay said. In the afternoon, the storm lay 370km southwest of Kolkata.
Chennai: A depression has formed over Bay of Bengal on Monday and it is likely to intensify further into a deep depression and bring widespread rainfall over Tamil Nadu, Kerala and south coastal Andhra Pradesh from December 1, the India Meteorological Department said.
Cyclone Amphan made landfall on the West Bengal Coast with wind speed of 110-120 kmph in Kolkata on Wednesday. Policemen remove a damaged structure from a road as super cyclone Amphan makes its landfall, at Rasgovindpur in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha on May 20, 2020.
The bay gets its name from the historical Bengal region (Modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal). In ancient scriptures, this water body may have been referred to as 'Mahodadhi' (Sanskrit: ??????, lit.
The system began bringing torrential rainfall to Sri Lanka and Southern
India. Around 15:00 UTC, the system further developed into Cyclonic
Storm Amphan.
Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan.
| Super cyclonic storm (IMD) |
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| Category 5 tropical cyclone (SSHWS) |
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| Duration | May 16 – May 20 |
There are no active storms.
Cyclone advice is issued as a watch or a warning through the Bureau of Meteorology. A Cyclone Watch is issued 48 hours before a cyclone's predicted landfall. A Cyclone Warning is renewed every three hours, with hourly warnings issued if the cyclone moves close to the coast.
According to the studies, destructive cyclones hit region with warm climate more because of the extra heat in the atmosphere & ocean. In the Bay of Bengal, the surface temperatures of water bodies are high which makes the condition even worse as it creates favorable conditions for the formation of the cyclone.
Cyclone Amphan developed into a super cyclone over the Bay of Bengal on Monday and has potential to cause extensive damage in the coastal districts. This is the second super cyclone over the Bay of Bengal in two decades.
That year, the United States began using female names for storms. The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Cyclonic storms rising in the North Indian Ocean are named by the Indian Meteorological Department. In the Indian Ocean region, 8 countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, and Thailand) started the process of giving the name to cyclonic storms since 2004 on the initiative of India.
The countries most affected by tropical cyclones in this ocean are the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and La Reunion. Also affected is Mozambique, which has a coastline, and Zimbabwe, which is landlocked.
According to the Met Office, the decision for a storm to be named is “based on a combination of both the impact the weather may have, and the likelihood of those impacts occurring. A storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red weather warning.”
Why are Hurricanes Named? Hurricanes occur every year, and sometimes two or three hurricanes can be active at the same time. For that reason, the World Meteorological Organization develops a list of names that are assigned in alphabetical order to tropical storms as they are discovered in each hurricane season.
Cyclone Nisarga, headed towards the coastline of Maharashtra and Gujarat, comes a week after Cyclone Amphan wreaked havoc in West Bengal. Nisarga, which is currently brewing in the Arabian Sea, means nature and was named by Bangladesh. The name was accorded in a list formulated by a group of countries.
The strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in India is the 1999 Odisha cyclone. The costliest tropical cyclone in India was Cyclone Amphan of 2020, which hit West Bengal and caused $14 billion worth of damage. The deadliest cyclone in India is the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone, which killed at least 1,800 people.
Here are some of the most notable cyclones in India throughout recent history:
- The 1970 Bhola cyclone. The Bhola cyclone is one of the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded.
- The 1991 Bangladesh cyclone. Another deadly cyclone that formed over the Bay of Bengal was the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone.
- The 1999 Odisha cyclone.
Cyclone storm Hikka is hovering over the Arabian Sea and is likely to affect some areas of Oman's coastline, according to the India Meteorological Department.
- 8 Dead As Cyclone Fani Hits West Bengal To Continue Further North-East.
- 12 Districts 'Very Highly Prone' to Cyclones: Indian Meteorological Department.
There are two types of cyclones: middle latitude (mid-latitude) cyclones and tropical cyclones. Mid-latitude cyclones are the main cause of winter storms in the middle latitudes.
