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Cyclone Yaas and Spring Tide Inundate Coastal Line of Bengalâs Medinipur, Sundarbans Regions
Initial estimates suggest that one crore people were affected by the cyclone and that over three lakh houses were damaged.
Locals near the coast as Cyclone Yaas makes landfall at Digha in East Midnapore, May 26, 2021. Photo: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra
Rights27/May/2021
Kolkata: The very severe cyclonic storm Yaas, with wind speed racing from 120-140 kmph, battered the country’s eastern coast of West Bengal and Orissa on Wednesday, inflicting large scale damages to human habitats and farmlands.
The storm surge triggered by the cyclone, which coincided with the perigean spring tide because of Wednesdayâs full moon, caused an extraordinary rise in the water level in several rivers.