{"id":323595,"date":"2020-06-02T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T08:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323595"},"modified":"2020-06-02T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T08:28:27","slug":"nisarga-to-intensify-into-severe-cyclonic-storm-will-make-landfall-near-maharashtra-gujarat-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nisarga-to-intensify-into-severe-cyclonic-storm-will-make-landfall-near-maharashtra-gujarat-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Nisarga to intensify into Severe Cyclonic Storm, will make landfall near Maharashtra, Gujarat tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323597 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cyclone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/cyclone.jpg 684w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/cyclone-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/cyclone-620x420.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/>Cyclone storm &#8220;Nisarga&#8221;, which is headed towards Maharashtra and Gujarat, is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and is expected to make a landfall close to Maharashtra on June 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDepression over east-central Arabian sea intensified into Deep Depression. To intensify further into a Severe Cyclonic Storm and cross Maharashtra coast during 3rd June afternoon.Cyclone Alert for north Maharashtra south Gujarat coasts,\u201d The IMP tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe\u00a0Deep Depression\u00a0over East central Arabian Sea moved northwards with a speed of 11 kmph during past 06 hours and lay centred at 0830 hours IST of today, the 02nd\u00a0June, 2020 over East central Arabian Sea near latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 71.2\u00b0E, about 280 km west of Panjim (Goa), 450 km south-southwest of Mumbai (Maharashtra) and 670 km south-southwest of Surat (Gujarat),\u201d the IMD said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is very likely to intensify into a Cyclonic Storm during next 06 hours and further into a Severe Cyclonic Storm during subsequent 12 hours. It is very likely to move nearly northwards during next few hours, recurve north-northeastwards thereafter and cross north Maharashtra and adjoining south Gujarat coast between Harihareshwar and Daman,\u00a0close to Alibag (Raigad District, Maharashtra)\u00a0 during the afternoon of 03rd\u00a0June\u00a0as a Severe Cyclonic Storm\u00a0with a maximum sustained wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Warnings:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rainfall<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places very likely over Konkan &amp; Goa during next 24 hours. Light to moderate rainfall at most places with isolated heavy falls very likely over Coastal Karnataka, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada during next 24 hours.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and\u00a0extremely heavy falls (\u2265 20 cm in 24 hours)\u00a0at isolated places very likely over north Konkan (Mumbai, Palgar, Thane, Raigad districts) and north Madhya Maharashtra<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places over south Konkan (Ratnagiri&amp; Sindhudurg districts) &amp; Goa and south Gujarat region (Valsad, Navsari, Dang, Daman, Dadra &amp; Nagar Haveli and Surat districts)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy falls at isolated places over west Madhya Pradesh on June.3.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Sea condition<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sea condition is rough to very rough over Eastcentral Arabian Sea. It would become very rough to High over eastcentral Arabian Sea from today afternoon. It will become High to very High over Eastcentral Arabian Sea along &amp; off Maharashtra &amp; Goa coasts from today. Evening. The Sea condition is very likely to be very rough to High over northeast Arabian Sea along &amp; off south Gujarat coast on June 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fishermen Warning<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fishermen are advised not to venture into Eastcentral and Northeast Arabian Sea and along &amp;off\u00a0Karnataka-Goa-Maharashtra-south Gujarat coasts till 03rd\u00a0June.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Total suspension of fishing operations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mobilise evacuation from low lying areas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Judicious regulation of rail and road traffic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">People in affected areas to remain indoors.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Movement in motor boats and small ships unsafe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone storm &#8220;Nisarga&#8221;, which is headed towards Maharashtra and Gujarat, is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and is expected to make a landfall close to Maharashtra on June 3. \u201cDepression over east-central Arabian sea intensified into Deep Depression. To intensify further into a Severe Cyclonic Storm and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323598,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323595\/revisions\/323598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}