New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday said that a low-pressure area will form in the Arabian Sea in the next 48 hours and will move towards the Gujarat and north Maharashtra coasts till June 3.
Two storms are forming over the Arabian Sea, one lies off the African coast and is likely to move over Oman and Yemen, while the other is placed close to India.
The development comes almost ten days after ‘Amphan’ pummelled four districts of Bengal in the fiercest cyclone in the region in a century, that left 86 people dead and rendered ten million people homeless.
The IMD, in its daily bulletin, stated, “A low-pressure area would form over the Southeast-eastcentral Arabian Sea during the next 48 hrs. To intensify into a depression during the subsequent 48 hours with the possibility of further intensification. To move north-northwestwards towards Gujarat and north Maharashtra coasts till June 3.”
A low-pressure area and a depression are the first two levels on the IMD’s eight-category scale used to classify cyclones based on their intensity.
The weather bureau said that under the influence of the likely formation of a low-pressure system over the Arabian Sea, conditions will become favorable from June 1 for the onset of monsoon over Kerala.
SOURCE–IANS
