According to <\/span>India Meteorological Department (IMD)<\/a>, Cyclone Asani is not going to hit West Bengal and is only likely to trigger a spell of rain that will majorly impact Bangladesh and Myanmar.<\/span><\/p>\n Cyclone Asani is a severe cyclonic storm that formed over the Bay of Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n Named by:<\/b> The name Asani is given by Sri Lanka which means wrath in the Sinhala language.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance:<\/b> It is the first cyclone of 2022 formed in the North Indian Ocean region comprising the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n Impact: <\/b>In comparison to Cyclone Fani and Cyclone Amphan, Cyclone Asani is expected to only graze the coast and not make landfall.<\/span><\/p>\n India has a bi-annual cyclone season that occurs between March to May and October to December. But on rare occasions, cyclones do occur in June and September months.<\/span><\/p>\n Cyclones are less common during the June to September monsoon season as there are limited or almost no favourable conditions for cyclogenesis due to strong monsoon currents.\u200b\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n This is also the period when the wind shear \u2014 that is, the difference between wind speeds at lower and upper atmospheric levels \u2014 is very high. As a result, clouds do not grow vertically and monsoon depressions often fail to intensify into cyclones.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cExplained: Cyclone Asani is on the way, but it won\u2019t be another Fani or Amphan. Here\u2019s why\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on<\/span> 10th May 2022<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), Cyclone Asani is not going to hit West Bengal and is only likely to trigger a spell of rain that will majorly impact Bangladesh and Myanmar. What is Cyclone Asani? Cyclone Asani is a severe cyclonic storm that formed over the Bay of Bengal. Named… Continue reading Explained: Cyclone Asani is on the way, but it won\u2019t be another Fani or Amphan. Here\u2019s why<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-183624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702406179},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Cyclone Asani?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Occurrence of Cyclones in India<\/b><\/h5>\n