Cyclone Mandous struck India’s japanese coast with terrifying fury and velocity over the weekend, laying waste to swaths of homes and crops. The machine claimed more than one lives in India and Sri Lanka at the same time as stranding lots of others.
The cyclone made landfall close to Chennai withinside the past due Friday night, and then it tore thru coastal Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh districts earlier than weakening right into a depression. Around three hundred homes had been damaged, at the same time as the town noticed greater than 500 tree uprootings, way to Mandous’ extraordinarily windy throes.
As of Monday morning, the cyclonic movement persists over North Interior Tamil Nadu and adjacent South Interior Karnataka and Kerala, albeit as a well-marked low-strain vicinity. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), it’s miles possibly to experience the peninsula to the west coast at the same time as weakening in addition and re-emerge into the southeast and adjacent east-crucial Arabian Sea off the north Kerala-Karnataka coast.
Under its influence, a low-strain vicinity will possibly shape over the Arabian Sea round Tuesday (December 13) and pass west-northwestwards farfar from the Indian coast thereafter. These remnants will make certain that wet climate maintains over the southern peninsular as a minimum until Tuesday.
Specifically, IMD warns of mild to mild rainfall in maximum locations throughout southern India. In addition, heavy showers (64.five mm – 115.five mm) can also additionally pelt a few regions of Tamil Nadu, South Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh on Monday and over Kerala and Mahe on Monday and Tuesday (December 12-13). Rainfall hobby will lower from those locations thereafter.
Similar to earlier than, the IMD has recommended fishers now no longer to project into the southeast and adjacent east-crucial Arabian Sea and alongside and stale the North Kerala-Karnataka coast on Monday and Tuesday. In addition, they ought to additionally chorus from coming into the Arabian Sea from Wednesday to Friday (December 14-16).
Further, a sparkling cyclonic movement is possibly to emerge over the Andaman Sea with the aid of using Tuesday, December 13. The machine will convey pretty massive rainfall with heavy rains in remoted regions can also additionally pelt the Andaman and Nicobar islands on Wednesday and Thursday (December 14-15).
As a precaution, IMD has positioned the whole states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu on a yellow watch (meaning ‘be updated’) for Monday. After that, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and Coastal Karnataka will continue to be at the alert on Tuesday. Only Kerala will percentage the alert on Wednesday.
