KOLKATA: Kolkata may receive light to moderate showers this weekend under the impact of a cyclonic storm that is now brewing over the Andaman Sea.
Other areas of south Bengal may receive heavy to very heavy showers, say weathermen. From Friday, the showers may start in coastal districts of East and West Midnapore, South and North 24 Parganas and Jhargram, which may receive very heavy
rain on Saturday even as the cyclonic storm hits the north Andhra and Odisha coasts on December 4.
According to a bulletin released by the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), a low pressure hovers over south Thailand and neighbourhood on Tuesday morning. It is likely to emerge into Andaman Sea by Tuesday night and then move west-northwestwards and turn into a depression over southeast and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal by December 2.
The system is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm over central parts of the Bay of Bengal during the subsequent 24 hours. “Then, it is likely to move northwestwards, intensify further and reach north Andhra Pradesh-Odisha coasts on December 4 morning. The system has started forming on Tuesday, so it’s still too early to predict the exact course that it will take. But the chances of its turning into a
cyclone are high,” said an RMC official. Weather in Kolkata and the rest of south Bengal will remain dry and sunny till Friday.
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