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On 27th May, the Regional Meteorological Centre messaged about this cyclone towards the Indian coasts.
“Cyclonic Storm ''FANI'' lay centred at 0530 hrs over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood
Fani, as the name suggested for the cyclonic storm, had its origin through a depression in the Bay of Bengal and was most likely to convert into a severe cyclonic storm.
On 27th May, the Regional Meteorological Centre messaged about this cyclone towards the Indian coasts.
"Deep depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm Fani over the southeast Bay of Bengal and lay centred at 1130 hrs IST of April 27 about 1190 km southeast of Chennai," said the brief message that had come from RMC
Director RMC, S Balachandran had tried warning about this cyclonic storm getting intensified further and had also said the name was suggested by Bangladesh.
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The most likely path of the cyclonic storm to follow was moving northwestwards and until north Tamil Nadu and south Andhra Pradesh coasts till May 1 and then recurve towards the northeast.
Despite not having a landfall effect thus would result in severe rainfall alerts also there has been forecast about the sea line and coast weather and waves being rough. Hence the fisherman and the nearest inhabitants are alerted not to move towards the sea in such conditions.
The most recent information of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) comes as: “Cyclonic Storm ''FANI'' lay centred at 0530 hrs over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood, about 745 km east-southeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 1050 km southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and 1230 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh)”.
After the above bulletin by the IMD “Light to moderate rainfall at many places with heavy rains at isolated places are very likely over Kerala on April 29 and 30. Light to moderate rainfall is expected at few places over north coastal Tamil Nadu and coastal Andhra Pradesh on April 29 and 30” has been informed.
There had also been declared a red alert for Tamil Nadu on April 30 and 1st of May. After such weather reports and forecasts, Odisha being the host to a coastline have started being alert about the cyclone. Odisha government has asked the district collectors to stay prepared and keep things ready in advance. Despite there being no forecast about Odisha by IMD, there are other international agencies who have predicted a mild effect on the Odisha state too.
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