On Wednesday Morning, in the middle of the cyclone Asani, heavy rain lashed out in some parts of the Kakinada district Andhra Pradesh. The cyclone Asani has changed its direction and is going to touch the nearby Kakinada coast, the officials informed.
The latest IMD update said that severe Cyclonic Strom Asani has weakened into a ‘Cyclonic Strom’. Till Thursday morning Cyclone Asani will likely become a depression, IMD added. Therefore, after touching the Kakinada coast, it will come again to sea between Kakinada and Visakhapatnam. A red alert has been sounded in Krishna, Visakhapatnam, Guntur, West and East Godavari districts.
Since last night, Andhra Pradesh is facing heavy rainfall. IMD says that Cyclone Asani will re-emerge and ‘recurve’ somewhere off the northern Andhra coast by night.
“CS ASANI lay centered at 0530 hrs IST, near lat 15.8°N & long 81.4°E, about 40 km south of Machilipatnam. Likely to move nearly northwards for next few hour & recurve slowly NNEwards & emerge into westcentral BoB off North AP coasts by night,” the latest update by IMD said.
Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh has postponed examinations slated for today to May 25. The rest of the exam schedule from May 12 remains unchanged. The examination center venues and the timings are also unchanged.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed nine teams in Andhra Pradesh and kept another seven teams on standby, one team has been deployed in Odisha and 17 have been put on standby. Meanwhile, 12 teams have been deployed in West Bengal and five were on standby.
Police say, “Pitch road is damaged, we put up 2 check-posts in our limits to control vehicular movement. Roads are getting damaged. We're stopping everybody from taking this route”
“Some information being received that in spite of warning some fishermen r venturing in2 the sea. Dist Admin advised 2 do public making in the areas & advice fisher folk not to venture I2 Sea till 12th May,” the SRC tweeted. “If someone doesn't listen & disobey, action under DM Act be taken against them,” he added.”
Air Asia has cancelled earlier proposed two flights one from Bangalore and one from Delhi. All Indigo flights, 22 Arrivals plus 22 Departures has been cancelled. Air India is yet to decide and convey about their flight operations. Decision about evening flights is awaited.