Mandous magnifies into extreme cyclonic storm, to touch coast by Friday night

Visakhapatnam: The cyclonic storm Mandous over the southwest Bay of Bengal, moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 13 kmph on Thursday, magnified into an extreme cyclonic storm and lay focused at 5.30 pm on Thursday over the Southwest Bay of Bengal, about 250 km northeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 320 km east-northeast of Jaffna (Sri Lanka), 350 km east-southeast of Karaikal and 440 km southeast of Chennai, the IMD stated. It is likely to keep the strength of a serious cyclonic storm till the morning of Friday and damage slowly into a cyclonic storm by forenoon. The cyclonic storm would continue to move west-northwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjacent south Andhra Pradesh coasts in between Puducherry and Sriharikota, around Mahabalipuram, with an optimum sustained wind speed of 65-75 kmph, gusting to 85 kmph around midnight on Friday. Personal site Skymet stated though the primary cluster of clouds was far from the coast, the peripherals of clouds have actually reached the seaside areas. “Both Puducherry and Chennai have actually begun to see some light and periodic rains. Winds are getting over the coast and rains will in the future get a lot more.” IMD stated that under the impact of the system, light to moderate rains might happen at many locations, heavy to really heavy rains at a couple of locations, exceptionally heavy rains at separated locations over north seaside Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and separated heavy to extremely heavy rains over adjacent south seaside Andhra Pradesh, north interior Tamil Nadu and Rayalaseema. Windstorm wind, its speed reaching 85-95 kmph, gusting to 105 kmph, would dominate southwest Bay of Bengal till the morning on Friday. The report alerted anglers versus venturing into the sea till December 10 as there would be a sea rise. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has actually put the south Andhra districts on high alert in view of the cyclonic storm Mandous in the Bay of Bengal. He asked the collectors to do the needful on an immediate basis. The CM evaluated the circumstance at a conference here. He stated appropriate preventative measures need to be taken by the authorities after evaluating the effect of the storm from time to time. The authorities notified the CM that rain has actually been anticipated in Nellore, Tirupati, Chittoor and so on. He asked the authorities of the farming department to spread out awareness about the safety measures to be taken by the farmers. Chief secretary Jawahar Reddy held a video conference with collectors of Tirupati, Annamaya, YSR Kadapa districts, evaluating the scenario. He informed them that the storm would reach the coasts of Puducherry, Mahabalipuram and Sriharikota by Friday night. “Take all preventative measures as moderate to heavy rains are most likely in these districts under the impact of the cyclonic storm,” he asked the authorities. The chief secretary stated one NDRF group in Prakasam district, 2 in Nellore and one each in Tirupati and Chittoor have actually been released. 4 SDRF groups, one each in Prakasam, Nellore, Tirupati and Chittoor have actually been stationed. He asked the collectors to use up instant repair work to roadways and other interaction networks in case of damages and keep the control spaces on alert round the clock till the storm crossed the coast. …
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