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A police person announces cyclone related warnings at a beach in Puri, Saturday, May 22, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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Four coastal Odisha districts – Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore – have been put on high alert with ‘Yaas’ – very severe cyclonic storm – predicted to cross north Odisha-West Bengal between Paradip and Sagar islands.
Latest satellite imageries and Ocean Buoy observations indicate that Saturday’s low pressure area, which became well marked over east-central Bay of Bengal in the same evening concentrated into a depression over east-central Bay of Bengal, says a bulletin of India Meteorological department here on Sunday.
The system 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), says the bulletin.