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Thursday, Aug 14, 2025
IMD Director General Mrutunjay Mohapatra said in Bhubaneswar that cyclone Asani has already achieved the maximum stage of intensification and is gradually getting weakened.
The cyclonic storm lay centred about 550 km southeast of Vishakhapatnam and 680 km south-southeast of Puri at 5:30 am on Monday, IMD said.
The IMD DG Mrutunjay Mohaptra has on Saturday made it clear the cyclone was unlikely to make landfall either in the coast of Odisha or Andhra Pradesh, but will move parallel to the coast in the sea.
If the weather system intensifies into a cyclone it will be called Asani, Sinhalese for 'wrath'.
The average temperatures observed pan-India for April was 35.05 degrees, which was the fourth highest in 122 years.
An orange alert has been issued for Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra for Saturday.
An orange alert has been issued for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra for the next four days.
The cyclone that developed over south Tamil Nadu coast has weakened.
The national weather agency has sounded Yellow alert in two districts on Monday namely Pathanamthitta and Idukki.
The monsoon is crucial for the Indian economy, as it brings nearly 75% of the rain needed by farms, besides replenishing reservoirs and aquifers.
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