Current Weather Conditions on 6th November 2010 @ 7.30 am

Cyclonic Storm "JAL" has tracked West Northwest at about 13 Kms./Hour during the last few hours towards the Tamilnadu Coast. Associated Convective clouds are spread over an area of about 450 Kms. from the Storm Center.

Location of Storm: 10.1N 85.5E @ 7.30 am
Distance & Bearing from Chennai: 650 Kms.to ESE

JTWC based on 1 minute ave. wind speed @ 6.30 am IST
Winds:65 Knots or 120 Kms/Hour
Central Pressure: 974 Mb.
Wave Height 5.35 Meters

JTWC Track map

NRL Map @ 7.30 am

As per IMD based on 3 min. ave. wind speed
Winds:55 Knots or 100 Kms/Hour @ 02.30 am.
Central Pressure: 990 Mb.

UW – CIMSS (ADT)—- Current Analysis —–
Date : 06 NOV 2010 Time : 013000 UTC (7.00 am)
Lat : 10:36:00 N(10.6N) Lon : 85:42:01 E(85.7E)

CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
3.9 / 977.6mb/ 63.0kt

Under the influence of this system, rain/thundershower would occur at most places with isolated heavy to very heavy falls over North coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and South coastal Andhra Pradesh during next 24 hours. Thereafter the intensity would increase with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and isolated extremely heavy falls exceeding 25 cm over north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, South coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema .

Gale winds speed reaching 60-70 kmph gusting to 80 kmph would prevail along and off North Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and south Andhra Pradesh coast commencing from today evening It may increase upto 120-130 kmph gusting to 140 kmph at the time of landfall. Sea conditions will be very rough to high, along and off these coasts becoming phenomenal at the time of landfall.

Storm surge of about 1-2 metres above the astronomical tide may inundate the low lying areas of Nellore & Prakasam districts of Andhra pradesh and Tiruvallur, Chennai & Kanchipuram districts at the time of landfall.