Bay of Bengal throws up cyclone ‘Yaas’
May 24, 2021
May cross Paradip-Sagar Islands as very severe cyclone
The Bay of Bengal has thrown up cyclone ‘Yaas’ this (Monday) morning located about 600 km North-North-West of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands; 540 km South-South-East of Paradip and 650 km South-South-East of Balasore (both Odisha) and 630 km South-South-East of Digha (West Bengal).
It will continue to move slowly along a North-North-West track and intensify further into a severe cyclone by tomorrow (Tuesday) and a very severe cyclone by Wednesday in as rapid a manner as erstwhile extremely severe cyclone ‘Tauktae’ did a week ago in the Arabian Sea.
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Representative image. A woman walks past the damaged structure and uprooted trees in the aftermath of cyclone Fani, at Amphi Theatre, Raghurajpur village, in Puri district, in 2019. Photo: PTI
Kolkata/Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: India was airlifting rescue and relief teams and keeping defence aircraft and naval vessels in readiness as it braced for cyclone Yaas which is expected to hit eastern coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal on Wednesday. This is barely a week after cyclone ‘Tauktae’ battered the western coast leaving behind a trail of destruction.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday that the cyclone is likely to make landfall on May 26 evening between Paradip in Odisha and Sagar islands in West Bengal after intensifying into a very severe cyclonic storm with wind speed ranging from 155 kilometre per hour (kmph) to 165 kmph, gusting to 185 kmph. It will start bringing
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Cyclone Yaas: Depression to intensify into very severe storm in next 24 hours; warning issued to Odisha, Bengal
Cyclone Yaas continue to move north-north-westwards, intensify further and reach Northwest Bay of Bengal near West Bengal and north Odisha coasts by May 26 morning. Fishermen have been advised not to venture into southeast and east-central areas
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Cyclone Yaas has evolved into a cyclonic storm
Cyclone Yaas has evolved into a cyclonic storm after it formed in the low-pressure area over the east-central region of the Bay of Bengal on May 22. As per the earth science ministry, the cyclone has concentrated into a depression over east-central Bay of Bengal and lay centred at about 560 km north-northwest of Port Blair (Andaman Islands), 590 km east-southeast of Paradip (Odisha), 690 km south-southeast of Balasore (Odisha) and 670 km south-southeast of Digha (West Bengal). It is very likely to move slowly north-
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A depression in east central Bay of Bengal is very likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm with a possible wind speed of 155 kmph to 165 kmph and make landfall on May 26 evening between Paradip in Odisha and Sagar island in West Bengal, the Met department said on Sunday. The system, which lays 670 km south-southeast of Digha in West Bengal and 590 km east-southeast of Paradip, will cause heavy to very heavy rain in the coastal and interior districts of the two states as it progresses, said Sanjib Bandopadhyay, the deputy director of the Regional Met Centre in Kolkata. The depression will intensify into a cyclonic storm by May 24 morning and move in a north-northwesterly direction.