The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red-colour coded warning to coastal Maharashtra and Gujarat for June 3 in view of a cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea. The IMD released a red alert for Wednesday indicating heavy rain at isolated places in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently held a review meeting with officials of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on readiness for dealing with Cyclone Nisarga. In view of the developing tropical storm situation in the Arabian Sea, NDRF teams are also being deployed in the State of Maharashtra with 3 in Mumbai, 2 in Palghar and 1 each in Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg.
At this moment, this low-pressure area is situated along the Karnataka-Goa coast and is said to be moving northwards. It is further expected to intensify into Category 1 Cyclone Nisarga. There is a chance of further intensification of the cyclone into Category 2. After that, it is said to recurve northeast and cross Mumbai and Diu between Wednesday and Thursday.
The Meteorological department has four colour-coded warnings as per the intensity of any weather system, green, yellow, orange and the last one being red. It has issued an orange-colour coded warning to Kerala, coastal Karnataka, Goa and coastal Maharashtra for June 1. The same warning applies to coastal Maharashtra and Goa for June 2. For June 3, a red-coloured coded warning has been issued to coastal Maharashtra and Goa and an orange coloured warning to Gujarat. The red-coloured warning has been issued to coastal Maharashtra, Goa and entire Gujarat for June 4, according to Sathi Devi, the head of the National Weather Forecasting Centre.
This build-up of this tropical storm in Gujarat and Maharashtra comes just days after super cyclone Amphan wreaked havoc in West Bengal and Odisha taking lives and destroying homes of thousands of people living in these states.
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