WeatherFanatics: Tropical Threat Looms for India Next Week

Friday, November 7, 2014

Tropical Threat Looms for India Next Week

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist

November 7,2014; 11:00PM,EST

Residents of eastern India can breathe a sigh of relief that a tropical cyclone will fizzle before moving inland, but another danger lurks for next week.
What was once Tropical Cyclone 05B in the Bay of Bengal has weakened dramatically as a result of dry air situated over the basin and is expected to dissipate before reaching eastern India this weekend.

At most, there will be an increase in showers along the coast of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha this weekend.
While eastern India will escape a blow from Tropical Cyclone 05B, residents are being put on alert for a potential new threat next week.
Current indications point toward a tropical low developing in the Gulf of Thailand early this weekend, then strengthening in the Andaman Sea as the weekend transitions into early next week. Eastern India may then be faced with a landfalling tropical cyclone around the middle of next week.
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As the low moves from the Gulf of Thailand to the Andaman Sea, heavy and potentially flooding rain will spread across southern Thailand and northern Malaysia this weekend.
While this area is accustomed to experiencing downpours, AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Anthony Sagliani clarified that "this will be a more organized area of heavy rain instead of the typical daily showers and thunderstorms that pop up in the afternoon."
The heaviest rain should bypass Kuala Lumpur, but Sagliani added that the city could still possibly receive enhanced rainfall on Sunday as the low passes by to the north.
Greater impacts in the terms of flooding rain and damaging winds would target the Andaman Islands around Monday as the low strengthens.
Eastern India would then be faced with similar threats as the future cyclone arrives at midweek.
The latest projections point toward a landfall along coastal Andhra Pradesh; however, all residents of eastern India should closely monitor the progress of the developing cyclone. Until the low takes shape, its final destination is far from etched in stone.

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