Cyclone Tej LIVE Updates: How was Cyclone Tej named? 

Cyclone Tej was named by India and and features in the list of storm names adopted by the WMO/ESCAP panel in April 2020. The India Meteorological Department incidentally is one of the six RSMCs to provide tropical cyclone and storm surge advisories to 13 member countries. Read more here

Cyclone Tej LIVE Updates: Cyclone Tej heads towards India, set to intensify by Sunday. Know where it will make landfall

A new cyclonic storm is likely to bring chaos in the Arabian sea this weekend. A low-pressure area over the southeast and southwest Arabian sea has evolved into a depression and is likely to upgraded into cyclone ‘Tej’ by Saturday morning, said the Indian Meteorological Department on Friday. The biggest anticipation about the storm is its location of landfall. The recent data by IMD says that cyclone ‘Tej’ is likely to move towards the south coasts of Oman and neighbouring Yemen. However, meteorologists have often cautioned that storms are likely to deviate from their predicted track and intensify at a different point than the forecast. Read more here

Cyclone Tej LIVE Updates: Cyclone Tej will not affect Gujarat, weather to remain dry for one week

A cyclonic storm taking form in the southwest Arabian Sea will not have any impact on Gujarat, an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said here on Friday. A low-pressure area over the southeast and southwest Arabian Sea has developed into a depression and is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm by October 21 morning, the IMD had said in a statement earlier.

Cyclone Tej LIVE Updates: Cyclone to intensify into a deep depression over next 24 hours: IMD

The IMD further said that it was likely to further intensify into a deep depression over the next 24 hours.

“The WML over Bay of Bengal concentrated into a Depression and lay centered at 2330 IST of 21st Oct over west-central Bay of Bengal, about 620 km south of Paradip (Odisha), 780 km south of Digha (West Bengal), and 900 km SSW of Khepupara (Bangladesh),” the IMD posted on X.

Cyclone Tej LIVE Updates: IMD predicts Cyclone Tej to intensify into Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm before noon today

Cyclone ‘Tej’, brewing over the Arabian Sea, is expected to transform into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) before noon on Sunday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

“VSCS (very severe cyclonic storm) Tej lay centered at 2330 IST of 21st Oct over SW Arabian Sea about 330 km ESE of Socotra (Yemen), 690 km SSE of Salalah (Oman), and 720 km SE of Al Ghaidah (Yemen). Very likely to intensify further into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm in the forenoon of 22nd Oct,” the IMD posted from its handle on X.