Tropical cyclone ‘Jal’ crosses India killing 11 in Andhra

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The tropical storm ‘Jal’ is being tracked by NASA as the depression has now left the peninsula with mild overcast western region after it created much havoc with rain and thundershowers in Andhra Pradesh killing 11 people and many evacuated from their lands. The satellite images at 8 a.m. EDT show the depression still active over the Arabian Sea where its centre lies and has been storming the western ghats wildly.

On Monday the Nov 8th the center of the storm was on the land, 25 miles north of Hospet, Karnataka at 2.30 a.m. while the Cyclone was active over Mahabaleshwar on Sunday at 6 p.m as the weather observer said that it was followed by heavy rains there. During the weekend the cyclonic storms moved across the east central India affecting the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh as well as the northern coast of Tamil Nadu, north of Chennai.

So according to the latest reports by NASA the gusty winds followed by heavy have only affected Andhra and the city of Mahabaleshwar which comes under the municipal corporation of Satara in Maharashtra located on the Western Ghats which are famous for cloud bursts and extremely heavy rainfall.

The weekend was bad for the southern coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh as the destruction to life and normal living conditions was huge in just 24 hours. They were waiting for flooding waters to recede to actually get a clear picture of the loss to roads, public property, crops and houses in the region.

The situation is being tracked by the NASA satellites and the destruction by rainfall in Andhra as well as Mahabaleshwar needs centers attention.

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