Cyclone Biparjoy: All You Need To Know About Formation Of Cyclones

Cyclone Biparjoy is expected to make landfall in Gujarat's Kutch district on Thursday evening.

Cyclone Biparjoy is hours away from making landfall. The "very severe cyclonic storm" is likely to carry a maximum wind speed of 115-125 kmph when it hits land in Gujarat's Kutch district. Red and Orange alerts have been issued in several districts of the state with nearly one lakh people shifted to shelters. Cyclone Biparjoy is one of the most powerful tropical storms to hit India in recent years, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD). Weather officers across the world have established metrics to call a storm a cyclone.

Powerful weather system like cyclones are formed by atmospheric disturbances around a low-pressure area and are accompanied by violent storms and bad weather. When the warm, moist air above the ocean upward, the remaining low-pressure area is filled with the high-pressure air from the surroundings causing a destructive air circulation.

According to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the word cyclone is derived from the Greek word Cyclos meaning the coils of a snake. It was coined by Henry Peddington because the tropical storms in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea appear like coiled serpents of the sea.