The Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘FANI’ (pronounced as ‘FONI’)

The Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘FANI’ (pronounced as ‘FONI’) over Northwest Bay of Bengal moved north-northeastwards with a speed of about 22 kmph in last six hours and crossed Odisha coast close to Puri with sustained wind speed of 175-185 kmph gusting to 205 kmph between 0800 to 1000 hrs IST of today, the 03rd May, 2019. It weakened into a very severe cyclonic storm and lay centred at 1130 hrs IST of 03rd May, 2019 over Coastal Odisha near latitude 20.2°N and longitude 85.9°E, about 10 km east of Bhubaneswar (Odisha) and 30 km south of Cuttack (Odisha) . 

It is very likely to continue to move north-northeastwards and weaken further into a severe cyclonic storm during next nine hours. It is very likely to emerge into Gangetic West Bengal as a Severe Cyclonic Storm with wind speed of 90-100 Kmph gusting to 115 Kmph by early morning of 4th May. It is very likely to move further north-northeastwards and emerge into Bangladesh on 4th May evening as a Cyclonic Storm with wind speed 60-70 Kmph gusting to 80 Kmph. 

The cyclone is being tracked by Doppler Weather Radars Gopalpur & Paradip.

Warnings:

Heavy rainfall warning

Odisha: Moderate rainfall at most places and heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy falls at isolated places over north Odisha and isolated heavy rainfall south coastal Odisha & adjoining districts of interior Odisha on 3rd May. Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy falls at isolated places over Balasore, Mayurbhanj districts of north Odisha on 4th May. 

West Bengal: Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy falls at isolated places very likely over coastal & adjoining districts of West Bengal on 3rd; and heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places over Gangetic West Bengal on 4th May. Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy falls at isolated places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim on 4th May.

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya and Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura: Light to moderate rainfall at most places with isolated heavy to very heavy falls very likely over Arunachal Pradesh and Assam & Meghalaya on 4th & 5th May; with isolated extremely heavy falls over Assam & Meghalaya on 4th. Light to moderate rainfall at many places with isolated heavy falls very likely over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura on 4th.

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