A New Storm To Develop In The Arabian Sea ON October 30, 2012

But the expected Bay of Bengal Cyclone NILAM is siphoning off all the moisture from the Indian Ocean south of Sri Lanka, so the expected storm in the Arabian Sea is going to be weak..

It will form 800 KMs west of Colombo potter around for a while than die down near the Kerala coast.

The expected co-ordinates of the new system....



 VERIFYING TIME     POSITION     STRENGTH        TENDENCY

  --------------     --------     --------        --------

 12UTC 29.10.2012   6.4N  70.9E     WEAK

 00UTC 30.10.2012   7.0N  71.1E     WEAK    INTENSIFYING SLIGHTLY

 12UTC 30.10.2012   6.8N  72.0E   MODERATE  INTENSIFYING SLIGHTLY

 00UTC 31.10.2012   7.6N  73.0E   MODERATE  INTENSIFYING SLIGHTLY

 12UTC 31.10.2012   8.6N  74.0E   MODERATE   INTENSIFYING SLIGHTLY

 00UTC 01.11.2012  10.0N  74.8E   MODERATE   INTENSIFYING SLIGHTLY

 12UTC 01.11.2012  11.1N  76.3E   MODERATE    WEAKENING SLIGHTLY

 00UTC 02.11.2012   BELOW TROPICAL STORM STRENGTH