In a matter of significantly less than a week, an additional cyclone has began brewing in the North Arabian Sea. The India Meteorological Department on Wednesday stated that, ” The cyclone is anticipated to create in the North Arabian Sea by Thursday morning”. This will the second cyclone soon after Tauktae that will be created in the basin of the Arabian Sea this year but it could not influence India’s coast straight.
The upcoming cyclone will be building from the remnants of Cyclone Gulab, that had formed in Bay Of Bengal, crossed the coast of Andhra Pradesh on September 26. Later, its remnants had been moved across Telangana, Maharashtra and now lay more than Gujarat.
Gulab’s trail lay as a nicely-marked low stress more than south Gujarat as on Wednesday morning, says IMD. According to the IMD’s bulletin issued on Thursday afternoon, “by Thursday morning, the system will intensify into a depression and continue moving west-northwestward direction. ” It also stated that by Friday morning, “the depression will farther intensify into a cyclonic storm and emerge in the north Arabian sea”. And then, the cyclonic storm will be recognized as Cyclone Shaheen. The name of this cyclone was proposed by Qatar.
Places like North Konkan, Gujarat, Kutch and Saurashtra stay on ‘red’ alert till Thursday. Some areas in Gujarat recorded non quit rains (24 hours) amongst Tuesday and Wednesday. The areas had been Umerpada (Surat) – 218mm, Valsad – 160mm, Dholera (Ahmedabad) – 152mm, Vadodara – 102mm, Surat city – 101mm, Bhavnagar – 77mm, Vapi (Valsad) – 67mm and Rajkot – 54mm as reported in the Indianexpress.com.
As per the Indianexpress.com, the cyclone is anticipated to move away from India’s west coast. It is headed towards Pakistan–Makran coasts and therefore, there no direct threat to Indian as however. The fishermen, nonetheless, from India and neighboring Indian ocean nations have been warned against venturing out into the sea till October 2. Those who are currently present at sea have been advised to take themselves to safer areas.