Monsoon likely to arrive over Kerala on May 31, says IMD
The Hindu
The monsoon arrival comes as an emerging cyclone brews over Arabian Sea.
The monsoon is likely to arrive on the Kerala coast on May 31, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on Friday. The normal monsoon onset date over Kerala is June 1 with an error window of four days. The monsoon arrival comes as an emerging cyclone brews over the Arabian Sea. Forecasters say the cyclone is currently a ‘depression’ or a pre-cyclone located about 30 km off Lakshadweep. Current weather models say the depression will become a cyclonic storm by Saturday evening and Tauktae — as the storm will then be formally called — will move along the western coast and reach the Gujarat coast by May 18. In the interim, it could intensify into a ‘Very Severe Cyclonic Storm’ that is characterised by wind speed of over 120 kmph. This would then make it a grade 3 cyclonic storm and two steps short of what is called a ‘Super Cyclonic storm’ with wind speed of over 200 kmph. It is common for storms to brew in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea ahead in May or in the month ahead of the monsoon onset.
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