Cyclone Gulab could give rise to a fresh cyclone
in the Arabian Sea. It had turned into a deep depression after crossing the
coast of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday evening. It moved westwards with a speed of 6
kmph during last the last few hours.

On Monday morning, it rained heavily in parts of Andhra Pradesh.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday
said that if the wind speed touches 68km to 87km/hr then the present system
will be given a new name. If this happens, it will only be the third such
occasion since 1996 when a cyclone after making landfall would further
strengthen and re-emerge as a fresh system of the ‘cyclone’ category in the
North Indian Ocean region.

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In 2018, very-severe cyclone Gaja was formed in the
Bay of Bengal. It had crossed the Tamil Nadu coast and later re-emerged in the
Arabian Sea from central Kerala. Gaja stayed in the Bay of Bengal for nearly 10
days before making landfall. It had one of the longest cyclone tracks covering
3,418 km.

The deep depression in cyclone Gulab was located 65
km south of Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh and 150 km east-northeast of Bhadrachalam
in Telangana, on Monday Morning.

The IMD’s cyclone bulletin said, “This system will
further weaken into a depression by Monday evening and move westwards near the
northeast Arabian Sea, close to Gujarat coast.”

The system would travel across Telangana,
Maharashtra, and reach close to the Gujarat coast before possibly re-emerging
on September 30, and will bring heavy rainfall in its wake. The Meteorological
department has issued ‘red’ and ‘orange’ alerts for meteorological subdivisions
covering coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Vidarbha, Marathwada, Madhya
Maharashtra, Konkan, Goa, and Gujarat till Tuesday.