Cyclone Yaas live updates: PM Modi to hold review meeting with ministers, senior officials today
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Cyclone Yaas live updates: PM Modi to hold review meeting with ministers, senior officials today
The current ‘low-pressure area’ over the Bay of Bengal is very likely to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” on May 25 and will reach the north Bay of Bengal near West Bengal and adjoining north Odisha and Bangladesh coasts around May 26 morning, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD). As Odisha braces for the cyclone amid a raging pandemic, chief minister Naveen Patnaik directed officials to be careful so as not to spread more infection due to crowding at cyclone shelters. Chairing a meeting to review the state’s preparedness, the chief minister directed that healthcare centres should have sufficient back-up facilities like power generators, water supply, medicines and food supplies. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to evacuate ar
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23 May 2021, 09:27 GMT+10
Paradip (Odisha) [India], May 23 (ANI): With Odisha bracing up for cyclonic storm Yaas, the first 22-member Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) team on Saturday arrived in Jagatsinghpur s Paradip.
According to the Jagatsinghpur Collector, Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, the epicenter of the Cyclone Yass was reported below the Pacific Ocean floor, but no tsunami alert was issued. It is expected to make landfall in northern Odisha and Sundarbans, moving north and northwest. The state government has expedited all preparations. Fishermen who have gone fishing to the sea are being brought back, said Mohapatra.
Very severe cyclone Yaas to hit north Odisha coast
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Narendra Modi reviews preparations; landfall likely on May 26 evening.
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Indian Coast Guard mobilises its assets on May 23, 2021 in view of Cyclone Yaas, which is expected to hit the eastern coast on May 26, 2021. Photo: Indian Navy via PTI
Narendra Modi reviews preparations; landfall likely on May 26 evening.
Kolkata The depression over east-central Bay of Bengal is very likely to move in a north-northwest direction and intensify into a cyclonic storm. The system Yaas is expected to cross the coast in north Odisha-West Bengal between Paradip and the Sagar islands by the evening of May 26 as a very severe cyclonic storm.
: Sunday, May 23, 2021, 6:05 PM IST
Cyclone Yaas: Places likely to be worst hit, preparedness, storm intensity - all you need to know
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A low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a depression that will cross the West Bengal and Odisha coasts on May 26 as a very severe cyclonic storm , the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. The depression is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm, Yaas , by Monday, it added. It (the depression) is very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify into a cyclonic storm by May 24 morning and further into a very severe cyclonic storm during the subsequent 24 hours. It would continue to move north-northwestwards, intensify further and reach Northwest Bay of Bengal near West Bengal and north Odisha coasts by May 26 morning, the Cyclone Warning Division of the IMD said. It is very likely to cross north Odisha-West Bengal between the Paradip and Sagar islands by evening of 26th May as a very
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