According to climate bulletins, Cyclone Sitarang is all set to accentuate right into a ‘extreme’ class storm by Monday night.
As of Monday morning at 8.30 am, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned that Sitarang was positioned about 380 km south of West Bengal’s Sagar Island.
IMD’s cyclone bulletin issued at 11.30 am mentioned, “The cyclone will move north-northeastwards and intensify into a severe cyclone during the next 12 hours.”
As per the most recent forecast, Sitarang could be very more likely to intensify right into a cyclone someday between Tinakona Island and Sandwich, close to Barisal in Bangladesh, within the early hours of Tuesday.
A ‘yellow’ alert for heavy rain (64.5 mm to 105.4 mm in 24 hours) has been issued in Odisha’s Baleshwar, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Bhadrak, Kendrapara and Jajpur districts on Monday.
Heavy rain (64.5 mm to 105.4 mm in 24 hours) could happen in coastal districts of West Bengal on Tuesday. The IMD has issued an ‘Orange’ alert for twenty-four North and South Parganas, Nadia and Paschim Medinipur districts.
Very heavy to very heavy rainfall (105.5 mm to 200.4 mm in 24 hours) will happen over South Asa, East Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura on Monday. The IMD warned that rain of comparable depth would proceed over the northeastern areas until October 26.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
