Cyclone Asani: Heavy rain and strong winds in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands - 10 updates

  • March 21, 2022, 11:05 a.m.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are likely to see heavy rain amid alert over Cyclone Asani - which is set to form over the Andaman Sea on Monday- with rescue teams deployed. This is the first cyclone this year that has put rescue teams on alert. However, no landfall point is mentioned. Strong winds with speed reaching 55-65 km per hour are likely to cause damage and disruption apart from rain.  People living along the coast have been evacuated. 

Here are the updates on Cyclone Asani, set to form over the Andaman Sea:

1.Several teams of the NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) have been deployed in Port Blair, the government has said. Army and Navy are also on standby.

2.Last week, the IMD had said that only eight cyclones have been formed in March between 1891 and 2020, including two in the Arabian Sea and six in the Bay of Bengal.

3. Fishermen have been advised not to venture along and off the islands on Monday and Tuesday.

4. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are set to experience strong winds with speeds reaching 55-65 km per hour, gusting to 75 km per hour, the IMD (India Meteorological Department) has said.

5.The government last week took a stock of the preparadeness.

6. Partial disruption of power lines, flooding of roads, "localised landslides or mudslides" are on the impact list.

7. Tourist activities have been suspended in the areas that are likely to bear the impact.

8. "Climatologically March is not cyclone season. It is April and May. The ocean is cooler in March and solar insolation is not very high. In March, westerly systems are predominant in the northern parts of the country and easterly waves are predominant over the Peninsular region," an IMD official had said.

9.No landfall point has been mentioned. "We have not mentioned or predicted any landfall points. It will move along and off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and then over the east-central Bay of Bengal and along and off the Myanmar coast and gradually reduce and become squally with wind speeds reaching 55-65 kmph, gusting to 75 kmph over the same region from Tuesday evening. When moving along and off Andaman and Nicobar, it is likely to bring extremely heavy rains and strong winds to the region, "a senior IMD scientist said.

10.In a late night tweet, the weather office said the depression over the Andaman Sea, 250 km north-northeast of Nicobar Islands and 80 km south-southeast of Port Blair, is set to move northwards along the islands, and intensify "into a deep depression in the next 12 hours".

Author : Rajdhani Delhi Representative

Rajdhani delhi representative

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