Tuesday, May 18, 2010

India On Alert For Cyclone Laila, Storm Poses Risk To Three States

India On Alert For Cyclone Laila, Storm Poses Risk To Three States
India is braced for tropical cyclone brewing 400 km outside of Chennai over the Bay of Bengal and is expected to reverse the island's east coast Tuesday night, risk lives and homes in three states and two commercial ports.

The Met Department have issued a "severe weather warning" with a cyclone alert for Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa maybe.

Named Laila, storm coasting against the mainland, trading between 95 and 100 km / h, but it is unlikely to be in a monsoon weather bureau official said.

In June-September monsoon, when the outbreak was declared on Monday, is crucial for India because two-thirds of Indians depend on farming incomes.

The "agrometeorological" wing, which monitors farm weather, "said deeper Westerlies were actually helping the monsoon.

"Sea conditions will be very rough Andhra Pradesh coast, and north Tamil Nadu coast. Fishermen should not venture into the sea off the coast," the weather forecast indicated.

Deadly tropical storms often take time off from the Bay of Bengal in India summer months.

In April, tore a Nor'wester - one second the Bay of Bengal storm system - through Bihar and Bengal, killing over 100 last year's hurricane Aila West Bengal was the worst disaster in decades, killing 128 and thousands of survivors with nothing.

Governments would be continuously updated, a weather bulletin said.

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