The Hindu Business Line : Cyclone Mala churns into Category 4 status

Tropical Cyclone Mala is now a very severe cyclonic storm (Category 4) and most weather models indicate that the system is just a churn away from being a category-topping super cyclonic storm.

Both the London-based Tropical Storm Risk Group and the US Navy's Joint typhoon Warning Centre agree that Cyclone Mala will undergo another round of intensification during the next 12 hours when winds are seen clocking speeds in excess of 125 knots (230 kmph) gusting to 150 knots (277 kmph).

But the storm will start weakening subsequently with the approaching landfall, which is expected to take place on Saturday night.

Over land, the pre-monsoon heating is getting further consolidated with heat wave conditions over North Rajasthan, Punjab and the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir getting extended into more parts of these States.

An update put out by the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) said that Haryana and Northwest Madhya Pradesh have also been brought under the influence of the heat wave.

In what is seen as a good augury for the impending southwest monsoon, heat wave conditions are now seen propagating into South coastal Andhra Pradesh and North coastal Tamil Nadu in the peninsula.

Cyclone Mala churning viciously away from the coast may have just helped by siphoning off whatever residual moisture was available over land.

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