Mumbai: After remnants of cyclone Gulab that hit the eastern coast of the country brought torrential rains to central Maharashtra, a senior Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) official said on Wednesday that the country is witnessing a “rare occurrence” as the weather system might generate another cyclonic storm.
Jayant Sarkar, head of the Regional Meteorological Department of the IMD, said such a phenomenon does not happen very frequently, “though it is known among our fraternity.”
“It did bring excess showers over Maharashtra and put most of the regions such as Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada into surplus precipitation category,” he told PTI.
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A cyclone begins with a ‘depression’. Generally, a cyclonic system loses its severity once it makes landfall because the supply of moisture reduces. Cyclone Gulab made landfall between Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam on the eastern coast. However, despite losing moisture supply, the system kept moving on westwards and brought intense showers over Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and later Gujarat in the last three days, said Sarkar.
“The weather system received some moisture and it accelerated towards the Arabian Sea. It is expected to leave the land from the Saurashtra region. With more moisture, it would get intensified from depression to deep depression to cyclone,” he said.
“At the same time, it will take away moisture from the coastal areas and reduce the rainfall over Gujarat’s Saurashtra region as well as north Madhya Maharashtra and Konkan region,” he said.
If it transforms into a new cyclone, it will be named ‘Shaheen’, he said.