Cyclone Hudhud will cross north Andhra, south Odisha on October 12 noon

NEW DELHI: The low pressure area over north Andaman that moved west-northwestwards and was intensified into a cyclonic storm 'Hudhud' on Wednesday morning will further intensify into a severe cyclonic storm during next 24 hours and eventually cross north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha coasts between Visakhapatnam and Gopalpur around noon of October 12.

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The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in its latest alert on late Wednesday evening said that the "system would continue to move west-northwestwards, intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm during next 24 hours and into a very severe cyclonic storm during subsequent 36 hours."

Referring to the development over the past two days, the national weather forecaster said a low pressure area, lay over north Andaman Sea on October 6, concentrated into a depression in the morning of October 7 and intensified into a deep depression in the evening the same day over the same region.

"It moved west northwestwards, intensified into a cyclonic storm 'Hudhud' in the morning of October 8 over north Andaman Sea and crossed Andaman & Nicobar Islands close to Long island between 8.30am and 9.30am on Wednesday," said the IMD.

It said, "Moving northwestwards, it lay centered at 11.30 hrs IST of October 8 near latitude 12.5oN and longitude 92.5oE about 1100km southeast of Gopalpur and 1150km east-southeast of Visakhapatnam."

http://ift.tt/1i5YumP Disaster Response Force,Cyclonic Warning Division,Cyclone 'Hudhud',"very severe cyclonic storm"

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