MAY 25, 2017, THURSDAY UPDATE
The low pressure system will begin to intensify into MORA by Saturday. It will be a quick moving storm. Will make landfall into Chittagong on Tuesday morning, May 30. Authorities have just 5 days to prepare for this challenge by nature.
The upper air cyclonic circulation which has formed in the Bay of Bengal now lies west of Andaman Nicobar islands. In the next 3-4 days it will move in a north northeasterly direction intensifying into a well marked low pressure system.
It is on May 28 it will begin to intensify into a depression and by Monday into a tropical cyclone cyclone (MORA). It will be a swift moving storm. It will make landfall into the Chittagong region of Bangladesh by May 31, that is next Wednesday.
Mora will be a cyclone with a central minimum pressure of about 985 hPa. That is with sustained 10 minute winds of about 100 kmph.
Please keep reading updates on this site to know about the latest storm possibility.
At this stage Mora is just a strong possibility. Keep checking with your local weather office.
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