New Delhi. Biporjoy, the first cyclonic storm this year to form in the Arabian Sea, has rapidly intensified into a severe cyclonic storm. Weather scientists have attributed this to a “slow” onset of monsoon over Kerala and “weak” progress ahead of the southern peninsula. predicted to do.
According to the updated information given by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) at 8.30 am on Wednesday, “Cyclone storm ‘Biporjoy’ in the east-central and adjoining southeast Arabian Sea with a speed of two kilometers per hour in the last six hours. It moved northwards with speed and intensified into a Severe Cyclonic Storm… It lay about 890 km west-southwest of Goa, 1,000 km south-southwest of Mumbai, 1,070 km south-southwest of Porbandar at about 5:30 a.m. To the south-west and 1,370 km south of Karachi remained concentrated at the same place.
According to forecast agencies, the storm is “increasingly intensifying”. The IMD on Tuesday said the cyclone is likely to affect the progress of monsoon. Private weather forecasting agency ‘Skymet Weather’ said that in Kerala Monsoon can knock on June 8 or 9. During this time, only light rain is likely. “Such powerful weather systems in the Arabian Sea affect the arrival of monsoon in the interior regions. Under the influence of the cyclone, the monsoon may reach the coastal areas at a slower pace, but it will struggle to move beyond the Western Ghats.
The southwest monsoon usually hits Kerala on June 1. There can be a difference of seven days in its arrival time. In mid-May, the IMD had said that the monsoon could reach Kerala by June 4. Skymet had earlier predicted the monsoon to hit Kerala on June 7, saying it could reach there three days earlier or later. South The eastern monsoon had hit Kerala on May 29 last year, June 3 in 2021, June 1 in 2020, June 8 in 2019 and May 29 in 2018. IMD had earlier said that El-Nino conditions Despite the development, the Southwest Monsoon season is likely to give normal rains over India.
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