ArabiaWeather monitors Grade 3 cyclone Totti as it continues to approach the Bay of Gujarat in India

Written By محمد عوينة on 2021/05/17

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Updated Monday at 1:00 pm | Hurricane Tauti

Arab Weather - Satellite images indicate that a tropical cyclone is presently present in the eastern Arabian Sea along the Indian coast, where it is precisely at the time of preparing this report that it is located at latitude 18.8 north and longitude 71.5 east, and the tropical cyclone of the third degree is about 220 km away from the Gulf of Gujarat.

The expected course in the next hours

The Bay of Gujarat is in the crosshairs of Hurricane Totti

The tropical cyclone Tauti is expected to make its way to the northeast along the Indian coasts, and the cyclone is expected to hit the Gulf of Gujarat during the hours of Tuesday night, in conjunction with its transformation into a category two hurricane on an ascending staircase of five classes, accompanied by a constant wind speed with a maximum of 155-165 Km per hour with gusts of more than 185 km per hour.

The most prominent weather phenomena associated with Tropical Cyclone Totti

Flooding rain on the Bay of Gujarat

It is expected that torrential rains will fall on the Gulf of Gujarat, where it may reach the limits of 500-600 mm, especially on the coastal parts (equivalent to what falls on Muscat within 6 years), and the tropical storm is accompanied by strong winds with an average speed of 180 km per hour, High waves reach between 6 to 8 meters on the northwestern coast of the Indian subcontinent.

Potential impacts on Arabia

No direct effects expected

The forecast crew indicates that the influence of the tropical state is completely far from any Arab country bordering the Arabian Sea, and it is not expected that the tropical storm will have any direct or indirect impact on the consequences of this tropical condition, as the center of Tropical Cyclone Totti is about 1400 km away from the capital, Muscat. Arab Weather provides a warning to sea goers and navigation practitioners of the danger of frequenting the sea due to the expected turbulence of the sea.