Cyclone Hudhud Update 8:30 AM,12/10/2014: WARNING! IN A FEW HOURS: 175-210 KPH WINDS TO HIT VISAKHAPATNAM

Cyclone Hudhud is just a few hours from making landfall. Ground Zero will be Vijayanagaram and Srikakulam coast. The winds will be 175 Kph, gusting up to 210 Kph.The devastation is going to be massive. Because these kinds of winds are going to howl on for about 12 hours.

A TV channel met some coastal residents near Vizag who were wide awake throughout the night. When asked they said they had never heard such winds before and they were frightened.

The good news is that the storm is weakening slightly. At 5:30 in the morning it was at its peak, throwing up winds of 200-250 Kph when it was a few kilometers away.

The Andhra districts of Srikaulam, Vijayanagaram and Visakhapatnam will bear the brunt of Hudhud's fury. So will Malkangiri district of Odisha.

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Cyclone Hudhud Update: 11/10/2014: Very Strong Winds To Lash Andhra, Odisha And Chattisgarh On Sunday

Cyclone Hudhud is now only a few hundred kilometers from Visakhapatnam. Rains are already lashing coastal districts of Odisha, Andhra and West Bengal.

Now the latest expected wind speed check. Just when the storm is near Vizag, the storm will throw up the strongest winds. 200-250 Kph. This will be early morning on Sunday (12/10/2014).  Come Sunday evening and winds of 165-200 Kph will be howling through the districts of Andhra ( Visakhapatnam, Sri Kakulam, Vijayanagaram and East Godavari), Odisha (Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangpur). Even Chattisgarh (Dantewada and Jagdalpur) will experience winds of 120-160 Kph.

And very heavy rain everywhere. Especially in Northern Andhra, southern Orissa and parts of Chattisgarh.

It is a misconception that the storm will weaken rapidly after making landfall. It is a powerful system that is going reach Uttar Pradesh and bring rainfall there.

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Latest Track/Path Prediction Map: JTWC June 11, 2014 2100 hrs GMT LATEST SATELLITE IMAGE

112100Z (JUNE 11 9 PM GMT) POSITION NEAR 17.6N 65.7E.

TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 02A (NANAUK), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 439 NM 

EAST-SOUTHEAST OF MASIRAH ISLAND, HAS TRACKED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT 

02 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS.

The latest bulletin issued by the JTWC (2100 hrs GMT, June 11, 2014) says nothing much has changed. The cyclone is expected to be as strong as forecasted earlier. It will hit the Oman coast south of Khaluf on June 15, 2014, Sunday early morning. Winds then will be between 75 kph and 120 kph. Heavy rains and very high waves will lash the coast. Muscat is away from Ground Zero so it will not bear the brunt of the storm. But expect rains, and heavy winds from Saturday.

Latest satellite image of cyclone Nanauk (Image taken at 0000 hrs GMT, June 12, 2014