India Tropical Threat Later This Week

Oct. 6, 2014 

While most of the action has been in the Pacific Ocean this year, an area of low pressure just off the coast of southern Myanmar is poised to organize into the third tropical cyclone of the year in the Bay of Bengal. Neither of the previous tropical systems strengthened beyond tropical depression status. This would also be the first organized tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal since the middle of May.

This animated GIF shows an area of showers and thunderstorms over the Bay of Bengal which could become a tropical cyclone this week. (NOAA/Satellite)

This potential cyclone is expected to achieve strengthen to the equivalent of a tropical storm and then hurricane, which would result in it becoming only the second named cyclone of the northern Indian Ocean season. The name Hudhud would be given to the storm once it achieves this strength. Earlier this year, Tropical Cyclone Nanauk developed west of India in the Arabian Sea. Nanauk dissipated before ever making landfall. Early thinking is that this potential cyclone will track west-northwest across the Bay of Bengal in an environment that will allow for strengthening. Areas from Kakinada in northern Andhra Pradesh northward to Ratanpur in Odisha should closely monitor this potential cyclone for possible impacts as early as Friday or Saturday. Flooding rain and damaging winds will be possible.

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