Nivar Cyclone is getting intensified and the places where it is predicted to make landfall have been kept on high alert. India Meteorological Department (Ministry of Earth Sciences) said that the ferocity of Nivar is likely to get intensified into a severe category.
MeT department said on Wednesday ” the severe cyclonic storm NIVAR over southwest Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 07 kmph during past six hours and lay centred at 0530 hrs 1ST of 25 November, 2020 over southwest Bay of Bengal near latitude 10.4°N and longitude 82.0°E, about 290 km east-southeast of Cuddalore, about 300 km east southeast of Puducherry and 350 km south southeast of Chennai. It is very likely to intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm during next 12 hours.”
” It is very likely to move northwestwards and cross Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mamallapuram around Puducherry during mid-night of 25th and early hours of 26th November 2020 as a very severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 120-130 kmph gusting to 145 kmph.” The landfall is expected to happen at this point of time.