KOLKATA: The city is likely to receive heavy rain on Sunday under the impact of a weather system that is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by Friday.
Apart from Jhargram and East and West Midnapore, the Met officials have issued a warning for Kolkata, Howrah, North and South 24 Parganas for Sunday. The rainfall in these areas will range from 7cm and 20cm along with gusty winds (40-50/kmph).
On Wednesday, the system took the shape of a low pressure over the central parts of Andaman Sea and its neighbourhoods. This system is likely to move west-northwestwards and turn into a depression over southeast and its adjacent east-central Bay of Bengal by Thursday. “The system is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours. Then, it is likely to move northwestwards and reach near north Andhra Pradesh– Odisha coasts on December 4 morning,” said a bulletin from IMD.
The cyclone, if it forms, will be named Jawad. Under its influence most parts of Gangetic Bengal will start getting rain from Saturday. The minimum temperature will start shooting up from Thursday.
“Some weather conditions will push up the minimum temperature. These include a total cut-off of the cold bearing Northwesterly wind, the southerly wind injecting much moisture into the land, cloud cover that will not allow the heat to radiate during night,” said Sanjib Bandyopadhyay, deputy director general of meteorology at Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata. Disaster management secretary Dushyant Nariala held a meeting with the DMs in south Bengal virtually to check the preparedness for the rain.
