Live Updates: Cyclone Nisarga Weakens Further; Now A Deep Depression
Cyclone Nisarga is the second one to strike India in lower than two weeks after Amphan hit Bengal final month
New Delhi:
Cyclone Nisarga, which hit Maharashtra coast with wind speeds of as much as 120 kmph on Wednesday afternoon, has weakened right into a “deep melancholy”, the India Meteorological Division stated.
The cyclone made landfall at 12.30 PM close to Alibaug in Raigad district, simply 95 kilometres from Mumbai. “There used to be a slight trade of route in opposition to north-eastwards which intended the have an effect on of the cyclone on Mumbai used to be much less critical than in the beginning anticipated,” the IMD stated in a observation.
Mumbai witnessed average rainfall all over the afternoon. The wind pace used to be 26 kilometres in keeping with hour. Colaba recorded 23 millimetres and Santacruz recorded 12 millimetres rainfall until four PM.
The elements started to transparent in opposition to the night, the IMD stated.
By way of four PM, the cyclone had began weakening with wind speeds of 90-100 kilometres in keeping with hour.
Two individuals died in Pune and one in Raigad district in cyclone-related incidents, state officers stated.
1000’s of other folks were evacuated in coastal Maharashtra and south Gujarat, trains rescheduled, flights cancelled and fishermen ordered out of the seas because the area braced for the cyclone.
Listed below are the updates on Cyclone Nisarga:
The hurricane recently lays over north central Maharashtra, greater than 40 kilometres south of Nashik, 140 kilometres west-southwest of Aurangabad and 120 kilometres north-northeast of Pune, a nine PM IMD bulletin stated.
SEVERE CYCLONE STORM “NISARGA” LAY CENTRED AT 0630 HRS IST OF TODAY, THE 03RD JUNE 2020, OVER EAST-CENTRAL ARABIAN SEA NEAR LAT. 17.40°N AND LONG. 72.15°E
155 KM SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF ALIBAGH.
200 KM SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF MUMBAI.hyperlink of hourly bulletin:-https://t.co/ziZUgL7tPepic.twitter.com/SN8vgu4pVB
– IMD Climate (@IMDWeather) June 3, 2020
Cyclone Nisarga has weakened right into a “deep melancholy”, the India Meteorological Division stated.
The cyclone made landfall at 12.30 PM close to Alibaug in Raigad district, simply 95 kilometres from Mumbai. “There used to be a slight trade of route in opposition to north-eastwards which intended the have an effect on of the cyclone on Mumbai used to be much less critical than in the beginning anticipated,” the IMD stated in a observation.
