A cyclonic circulation is currently seen over north interior Odisha and neighbourhood with a height between 0.9 kilometres and 7.6 kilometres above mean sea level tilting southwards, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday. According to the IMD, the cyclonic circulation is very likely to move northwestwards during next 3 days.
This comes just days after cyclone Nisarga made landfall in Maharashtra earlier this month. Cyclone Nisarga made landfall between Murud and Revdanda in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on June 3. The last severe cyclonic storm to hit close to Mumbai was in 1961. Cyclone Nisarga was severe with a wind speed of only 100 to 110 kmph. Last month, super cyclone Amphan lashed parts of Odisha and West Bengal and made landfall on the coastal areas of West Bengal and Bangladesh.