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S R Ramanan is an Indian meteorologist.He worked as the Director of Cyclone warning centre in Chennai, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1] [2] [3] He serves on the advisory committee of the centre for climate change and adoption research, Anna University, Chennai. [4]
The cyclone gradually moved north-west over the next few days towards the eastern coast of India. The storm peaked with sustained winds of 60 knots (110 km/h; 70 mph) causing heavy rainfall in north-eastern Tamil Nadu including Chennai and south-eastern Andhra Pradesh before making landfall near Bapatla in Andhra Pradesh on December 5.
The Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai is located at 50 (New No. 6) College Road, Nungambakkam, between Good Shepherd School and Women's Christian College.The three meteorological centres in South India function at Hyderabad, Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram serving the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala, respectively, under the technical and administrative control of the ...
Part of the 2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season: Date: 6 – 12 November 2021 (3 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 5 days) Location: India (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh) Sri Lanka: Also known as: 2021 Tamil Nadu floods, India-Sri Lanka floods, Chennai floods: Type: Flood: Cause: Depression BOB 05 and a low pressure system associated with the ...
He also coined the term cyclone, meaning the coil of a snake. In 1842, he published his landmark thesis, Laws of the Storms. [2] After a tropical cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1873 due to the failure of the monsoons, it was decided to organise the collection and analysis of meteorological observations ...
The most intense tropical cyclone to make landfall was the 1999 Odisha Cyclone which hit the state of Odisha. Its minimum pressure was 912 mbar (26.93 inHg) and maximum wind speed was 260 km/h (160 mph). [72] The costliest tropical cyclone was Cyclone Amphan of 2020 which hit the state of Odisha and West Bengal.
Tropical cyclone warnings and watches are alerts issued by national weather forecasting bodies to coastal areas threatened by the imminent approach of a tropical cyclone of tropical storm or hurricane intensity. They are notices to the local population and civil authorities to make appropriate preparation for the cyclone, including evacuation ...
Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Nivar [a] (/ n ɪ ˈ v ɑːr /) was a tropical cyclone which brought severe impacts to portions of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in late November 2020. The eighth depression and fourth named storm of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Nivar originated from a disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.