Tag: very severe cyclone

  • Cyclone Yaas to develop by Monday morning, headed in direction of North Odisha – West Bengal

    Districts alongside northern Odisha and adjoining West Bengal are bracing for a storm early this week. This would be the second cyclone to hit Indian coast inside ten days after Cyclone Tauktae which crossed Gujarat on May 17.
    Currently, a system is creating within the east-central Bay of Bengal. On Sunday morning, it was a melancholy (wind pace 45 to 55 km/hr gusting to 65 kms/hr) and was situated 560 kms north-northwest of Port Blair, 590 kms east-southeast of Paradip and 690 kms south-southeast of Balasore in Odisha.
    The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has stated that the system will intensify right into a cyclonic storm by Monday morning. Once realised, will probably be known as cyclone Yaas, named by Oman and signifies a tree bearing aromatic flowers.
    Further, the cyclone will transfer north-northwestwards because it additional strengthens to type a ‘Very Severe’ cyclone earlier than hitting alongside the north Odisha – West Bengal coast, someplace near Paradip and Sagar islands across the night hours of May 26.
    North Odisha districts together with Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara and Mayurbhanj will obtain average to heavy rainfall on Tuesday with the rainfall depth growing to very heavy class on Wednesday.
    Mednipur, North and South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Hooghly districts of West Bengal have been warned of heavy to very heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Extremely heavy rain is forecast on May 26 and 27 over Murshidabad, Malda, Dakshin Dinajpur, Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia and Bardhaman districts, right here.
    Gale winds with speeds touching as much as 80km/hr are probably over Odisha, West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts from Monday night which is able to enhance and proceed until May 26 night.