Kerala & TN braces for Cyclone Burevi
A red alert has been issued for 4 districts of Kollam, Alappuzha, Thiruvananthapuram & Pathanamthitta in Kerala as Cyclone Burevi is supposed to make inroads moving north-westwards and emerging onto the Gulf of Munnar & the underlying areas of Comorin, this Thursday as per reports from the Meteorological Centre in Chennai.
The Indian Met Department intimated “Burevi”, the Cyclonic Storm crossed Sri Lanka and is inching close at 12 kms per hour speed for the last six hours and lies centered northwest to Trincomalee, some 180kms east to southeast of Pamban in India. Furthering towards the Gulf of Munnar by the 3rd of December. Kerala started preparation to brace the storm since 29th of November as confirmed by the District Commissioner for Thiruvananthapuram, Mr. Navjot Singh Khosa.
The Chief Minister of Kerala, Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan confirmed news of the deployment of eight teams from the National Disaster Response Force or the NDRF and as well as Air Force and Navy personnel to carry out the relief and rescue operations regards to Cyclone Burevi. A total of 175 families that included 697 individuals were shifted to the camps and identification of some 2489 relief camps is in full swing till the wee hours of Wednesday. Our prime minister Narendra Modi, accessed the whole situation virtually with the Chief Minister of Kerala to get a hinge about the preparedness in purview of the storm. The NDRF is working upfront to battle the Cyclone that is about to affect Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Odisha.
The reports predicted strong winds coupled with heavy to very heavy rainfall for parts of Tamil Nadu & Kerala. Cyclone Burevi that sees origination in the southwest Bay of Bengal is expected to be intensifying within the next span of 12 hours. Tamil Nadu has already been recovering from the impact of Cyclone Nivar which made landfall two days back and it is going to be a test of the preparedness that will come in handy to reduce the impact of damage.
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News Source: Mint
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