Cyclone Ditwah: Storm forms over Bay Of Bengal, landfall likely on Tamil Nadu coast
While the weather system in Strait of Malacca which intensified and became Cyclone ‘Senyar’ moved away from the Indian coast, another low-pressure area over southwest Bay of Bengal has turned into a cyclonic storm – ‘Ditwah’ – with its impact expected on Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coast by November 30, according to the IMD.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in the early hours of Thursday Cyclone Senyar lay 850 km southeast of Car Nicobar – northernmost island of the Nicobar Islands – and was expected to weaken into a depression by evening.
Another weather system, however, parallelly brewed over southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of southeast Sri Lanka and Equatorial Indian Ocean, according to the IMD.
IMD said Cyclone Ditwah was formed over the southwest Bay of Bengal near and lay close to Pottuvil – 700 km SSE of Tamil Nadu’s Chennai.
The system will move north-northwest (NNW) and reach off north Tamil Nadu–Puducherry–south Andhra Pradesh coasts by early November 30, IMD said.
The cyclonic storm is named Cyclone ‘Ditwah’, a name submitted by Yemen, according to the roster which lists names of tropical cyclones over north Indian Ocean.