Five dead as another cyclone batters India Wed 26th May 2021 | 10:45 PM
At least five people died Wednesday as howling winds and waves the height of double-decker buses belted eastern India in the Covid-stricken country s second cyclone in as many weeks
Digha, India, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th May, 2021 ) :At least five people died Wednesday as howling winds and waves the height of double-decker buses belted eastern India in the Covid-stricken country s second cyclone in as many weeks.
Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming more frequent and severe as climate change warms the waters of the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
Storm surges inundated dozens of villages in eastern India yesterday after a powerful cyclone moved inland from the Bay of Bengal, damaging thousands of mud homes in two coastal states and killing at least two people, officials said. Barely a week after Cyclone Tauktae claimed at least 155 lives in western India, Cyclone Yaas has forced the evacuation of more than 1.5 million
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Cyclone Yaas makes landfall near Bahanaga coast south of Balasore at 9 am
The maximum sustained wind speed associated with the cyclone during the time of landfall was about 130 kmph to 140 km/hr and gusting up to 150 km/hr, said IMD DG Mrutyunjay Mohapatra.
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BHUBANESWAR: The very severe cyclonic storm Yaas hit the coast near Bahanaga coast between north of Dhamara and south of Balasore at 9 am on Wednesday.
The landfall has commenced and the process will continue for the next three hours, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The cyclone is crossing north Odisha coast to the south of Balasore. The maximum sustained wind speed associated with the cyclone during the time of landfall was about 130 kmph to 140 km/hr and gusting up to 150 km/hr, said IMD DG Mrutyunjay Mohapatra.