Daily Crop Weather Information on 02 December 2020

Abstract

The Cyclonic Storm 'Burevi' over Southwest Bay of Bengal moved westnorthwestwards with a speed of 18 kmph during past six hours and lay centered at 0830 hours IST of today, the 02nd December, 2020 over Southwest Bay of Bengal near Lat. 8.6°N and Long. 83.0°E, about 200 km east of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 420 km east-southeast of Pamban (India) and 600 km nearly eastnortheast of Kanniyakumari (India).It is very likely to intensify further during next 12 hours.It is very likely to move west-northwestwards and cross Sri Lanka coast around Latitude 9.0°N, to north of Trincomalee during evening/night of 02nd December as a Cyclonic Storm with a wind speed of 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph. It is very likely to move nearly west-northwestwards thereafter, emerge into Gulf of Mannar & adjoining Comorin area on 03rd December morning. The cyclonic Storm with wind speed 70-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph would be centred very close to Pamban around noon of 3rd December. It would then move nearly west-southwestwards very close to coast slowly and cross south Tamil Nadu coast between Kanniyakumari and Pamban during 3rd December night and 4th December early morning as a Cyclonic Storm with wind speed of 70-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph. Thus its impact on south Tamilnadu coastal districts is very likely to commenced from 3rd December forenoon initially over Ramnathpuram district and gradually towards Kanniyakumari district. ♦ Under the influence of the above system: • Storm surge of about 1.0 m height above astronomical tide is very likely to inundate low lying areas of south coastal Tamil Nadu (Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari districts) during the time of landfall. (i) Heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places with isolated Extremely heavy falls very likely over south Tamil Nadu (Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Kanniyakumari, Tenkasi and Sivagangai districts) on 2nd & 3rd December, 2020; over south Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Alappuzah) on 3rd December and isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall likely over south Tamil Nadu on 4th December 2020 and south 2 Kerala on 2nd & 4th December, 2020. (ii) Heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places very likely over north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Mahe & Karaikal and north Kerala on 3rd December, isolated heavy rainfall on 2nd & 4th December. • Fishermen are advised not to venture into southwest Bay of Bengal and along & off east Sri Lanka coast from 2nd to 3rd December; Comorin Area, Gulf of Mannar and south Tamil Nadu-Kerala and west Sri Lanka coasts from 2nd to 4th December, over Lakshadweep-Maldives area & adjoining southeast Arabian Sea from 3rd to 5th December. Total suspension of fishing operation during 2nd to 5th December over the areas.