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Tropical depression born near St Brandon, heading towards Madagascar

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Tropical depression born near St Brandon, heading towards Madagascar

A low pressure area evolving to the West of St.Brandon has now emerged as a tropical depression, Mauritius Met Office has said.

And clouds coming from the North-East will be influencing local weather, it added.

On Friday, it had referred to Satellite imagery to state that an “increased flare-up of convection along the monsoon trough axis with several shallow low-pressure”. Two had caught meterologists’ attention: one situated to the northwest of St Brandon and another one to the east-southeast of Diego Garcia.

The one close to St Brandon has evolved as a tropical depression, the Met Office said in a Special Warning Bulletin issued on Saturday morning.

“The tropical disturbance almost to the West of St Brandon has intensified into a tropical depression in the morning. Its is moving in a a general Westerly direction at about 20 km/h and expected to make landfall over Madagascar in the evening.”

At 10am, the tropical depression was centred near latitude 17.6 degrees south and
longitude 50.8 degrees east and is now moving in a general westerly direction at about 20 km/h.

On this track, the depression is approaching the north-east coast of Madagascar will make landfall near Tamatave this evening. Over land the system will weaken, but as it emerges into the Mozambique Channel on Sunday morning, there are indication that it will re-intensify and reach the moderate tropical storm intensity.

It will then be named ANA by Meteo Madagascar.

This system is not expected to directly affect weather at Mauritius.

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