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Tropical cyclone heading towards India

The path of Tropical Cyclone 4B. JTWC

TORONTO – A tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal is forecast to make landfall in India early Friday.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Tropical Cyclone 04B was producing maximum sustained winds of 64 km/h and was moving westward at 15 km/h.

It was located about 277 kilometres south-southeast of Visakhapatnam, India.

This is the fourth tropical cyclone in the Northern Indian Ocean season.

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NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite found that, in some areas of the storm, rainfall amounts of up to 30.4 mm per hour were falling.

The India Meteorological Department has issued rainfall advisories for some of the areas likely affected by the cyclone as it moves ashore.

NASA’s TRMM satellite saw broken bands of thunderstorms with moderate rainfall (yellow, orange) in the northern and eastern quadrants of Tropical Cyclone 04B on Nov. 19, 2013 in this image overlaid on ESA’s METEO-7 Satellite. NRL/NASA/ESA

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