NCMC reviews preparedness for incoming cyclone in Bay of Bengal

In the meeting, IMD updated the Committee on the weather situation

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

Cabinet Secretary TV Somanathan on Saturday presided over a meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) to review preparedness for the approaching cyclonic storm brewing over the Bay of Bengal.

In the meeting, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) updated the Committee on the weather situation.

‘The Bay of Bengal depression has been travelling westwards at 7 kmph over the last six hours. At 11:30 hrs IST on October 25, it was at around 950 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu), 960 km southeast of Visakhapatnam, 970 km southeast of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh), and 1030 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha).

‘The IMD prediction suggests the system will strengthen into a deep depression by October 26 and still further into a cyclonic storm over the southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal by the morning of October 27.