Cyclone Michaung to make landfall on December 5: Top 10 updates you should know
Michaung. The cyclone is expected to make landfall in Andhra Pradesh on December 5 while prompting rainfall in various parts of the country.
1) In the latest update on X (formerly Twitter), IMD has informed that the Deep Depression over Southwest Bay of Bengal finally intensified into Cyclonic storm Michaung at 5:30 am today. The weather forecaster wrote, “Deep Depression over Southwest Bay of Bengal intensified into a Cyclonic Storm MICHAUNG 0530 hrs IST 3rd Dec over the same region about 300 km east-southeast of Puducherry, 310 km southeast of Chennai, 440 km southeast of Nellore and 550 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam." 2) IMD has issued a heavy rainfall warning for four districts in Tamil Nadu in relation to Cyclone Michaung.
The weatherman have predicted heavy rainfall at isolated places in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu districts in the next 24 hours. IMD also predicted moderate rainfall with light thunderstorms and lightning at many places in these districts.
3) Cyclone Michaung is now expected to make landfall between Andhra Pradesh's Nellore and Machilipatnam on December 5 with a sustained wind speed of 80-90 kmph, gusting to 100 kmph, IMD predicted. 4) In an interaction with news agency ANI, IMD Visakhapatnam Cyclone Warning Centre MD Sunanda told ANI, “The deep depression over Southwest Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 18 kmph during the past 6 hours and lay centred on December 2, 2023, over the same region near Latitude 10.6°N and Longitude 83.6°E, about 440 km east-southeast of Puducherry, 450 km east-southeast of Chennai, 580 km south-southeast of Nellore, 670 km south-southeast of Bapatla and 670 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam." "It is likely to move
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