Rain Lashes Several Parts as ‘Amphan’ Moves Closer to Odisha Coast
Bhubaneswar: Rain lashed some parts of Odisha on Tuesday as super cyclone ‘Amphan’ moved closer to the coasts today morning. The state government has stepped up efforts to evacuate people staying low-lying and vulnerable areas, officials said. Rainfall has commenced over coastal Odisha since early hours of today. Rainfall intensity is likely to increase gradually [...]
Bhubaneswar: Rain lashed some parts of Odisha on Tuesday as super cyclone ‘Amphan’ moved closer to the coasts today morning.
The state government has stepped up efforts to evacuate people staying low-lying and vulnerable areas, officials said.
Rainfall has commenced over coastal Odisha since early hours of today. Rainfall intensity is likely to increase gradually and become maximum during 19th night to 20th afternoon.
Light to moderate rainfall is very likely at most places of coastal Odisha with heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara and Bhadrak Districts and isolated heavy falls over Jajpur, Balasore, Cuttack, Mayurbhanj, Khordha & Puri districts on 19th May and isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over north coastal Odisha (Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak and Keonjhargarh Districts) on 20th May 2020.
A per the morning IMD report, ‘Amphan’ lay centred over west-central Bay of Bengal, about 520 km south of Paradip (Odisha), 670 km south-southwest of Digha (West Bengal).
It is likely to weaken in to an extremely severe cyclonic storm, move north-northeastwards over Bay of Bengal and cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts between Digha and Hatiya Islands during Wednesday afternoon or evening as a very severe cyclonic storm with maximum sustained wind speed of 155-165 kmph gusting to 180 kmph.
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