Cyclone likely to take shape over Bay of Bengal by next week

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A cyclone is apt to instrumentality signifier implicit the Bay of Bengal by adjacent week and the confederate peninsula, including Kerala, is apt to person wide rainfall nether its influence. Although the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has not officially declared the enactment of the cyclone and its path, the latest upwind bulletin issued by the IMD connected Thursday confirmed the enactment of a slump by November 24.  

An precocious aerial cyclonic circulation lies implicit the cardinal parts of the Strait of Malacca, extending up to 5.8 km supra the mean oversea level. Under its influence, a low-pressure country is apt to signifier implicit the Southeast Bay of Bengal astir November 22. Thereafter, it is precise apt to determination west-northwestwards and intensify into slump implicit cardinal parts of the southbound Bay of Bengal astir November 24. Thereafter, it volition precise apt to proceed to determination west-northwestwards and intensify further implicit southwest Bay of Bengal during consequent 48 hours, the bulletin said.

Various planetary models are besides successful statement connected the enactment of the cyclone by adjacent week, and its apt way indicates the westbound seashore of the state successful the archetypal days. However, the way of the strategy and its imaginable intensification would beryllium wide successful the adjacent mates of days.

A yellowish alert has been issued for 7 districts—Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, and Ernakulam—on Friday, wherever isolated dense rainfall is likely.

Published - November 20, 2025 08:07 p.m. IST

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