To begin with, a low-pressure region over the South Andaman Sea is anticipated to escalate into a cyclone by Sunday, a statement to which the Met office has given utterance. According to a Met newscast on Friday, Kolkata will likely get heavy downpours and thunderstorms between May 10 and 13. If the structure turns into a cyclone, it will be called Asani, which Sri Lanka gave a name. In Sinhalese, Asani indicates wrath.
The following likely stages of the cyclone Asani
Moreover, the system will turn into a depression by Saturday and a cyclone by Sunday. The system is likely to advance north-westwards and intensify into a depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal by May 7 evening and into a cyclonic typhoon over the east-central Bay of Bengal by May 8 late afternoon. It is very probable to resume moving north-westwards and reaching the west-central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal, off North Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coasts, on May 10, retorted a Met newscast on Friday afternoon. If the organization emerges into a cyclone, it will be the third on the Bay in May in three successive years, Amphan in May 2020 and Yaas in May 2021. Met officials said the warm sea-surface circumstances in May are ideal for the emergence of cyclones.
Cyclone Asani is likely to bring heavy downpour to the region of West Bengal.
Nonetheless, the season’s first cyclone on the Bay of Bengal is probable not to harm West Bengal. Cyclone Asani, infusing in the South Andaman Sea, is forecasted to make landfall between Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Bhubaneswar in Odisha by May 10. The estimated landfall region is about 450km from the West Bengal coast and more than 500km from Kolkata, retorted an Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officer on Friday.
The dense rain forecasted in West Bengal is likely to impact cultivation. A state agriculture department official retorted that while most of the boro paddy will be harvested before May 10 and is unlikely to be affected much, jute, vegetables and sesame culture are likely to be severely devastated critically in the south Bengal districts.
For instance, a senior weather scientist pointed out on social media that there is a possibility of the cyclone incapacitating considerably before landfall.
