Current Weather Conditions on 9th October 2013 @ 10.30 am.
90W.INVEST tracked over the Gulf Of Thailand over to the North Andaman Sea and on 7th October developed into a A Low Pressure area and further intensified to a Depression on 8th October.
As per IMD Bulletin No. BOB 04/2013/05 Time of issue 0900 hours IST Dated 09-10-2013:
The depression over North Andaman Sea moved northwestward with a speed of 13 kmph during past 6 hours, intensified into a deep depression and lay centred at 0530 hrs IST of today, the 09th October 2013 over north Andaman Sea near latitude 13.00N and longitude 93.50E, about 170 km north-northeast of Port Blair, 1100 km east-southeast of Paradip, 1200 km east-southeast of Visakhapatnam. The system would intensify into a cyclonic storm during next 12 hours. It would move west-northwestwards and cross Andaman islands near Mayabandar by noon of today, the 9th October 2013 as a cyclonic storm. It would then continue to move west-northwestwards for some time and then northwestwards and cross north Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coast between Kalingapatnam and Paradip by night of 12th October, 2013 as a very severe cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 175-185 kmph.
As Per JTWC the System is monitored as Tropical Cyclone 02B(TWO)
Tropical Cyclone 02B (Two) Warning #01 Issued at 09/0300Z
NRL Meteo 7 IR Satellite Image of 02B TWO on 9th October 2013 @ 0400 UTC (9.30 am. IST)
UW-CIMSS Satellite Image of 02B.TWO on 09102013 @ 0330z
