Yaas in 2021 after Amphan in 2020 - the Bay has turned into a basin of cyclones Samrat Sharma
A year after the super cyclone Amphan s destructive tryst with India s eastern coast on May 20, 2020, another powerful storm is roaring off Odisha and West Bengal once again.
Cyclone Yaas is likely to cruise north-northwestward and cross Odisha s coast around the noon of May 26 as a very severe cyclonic storm, said the India Meteorological Department. This is almost a week after another extremely severe cyclone, Tauktae, hit the western coast of the country.
Active Basin of Cyclones
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Highlights
IMD on May 25 morning predicted that Yaas is going to intensify into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm in the next few hours.
The weather dept also stated that Yaas is very likely to cross north Odisha-Bengal coasts around Balasore, during noon of May 26.
New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday (May 25, 2021) predicted that Cyclone Yaas is going to intensify into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm in the next few hours.
As per a weather bulletin released at 2 AM, the Cyclonic Storm Yaas over East-central Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards with a speed of about 10 kmph during the past 6 hours, intensified into a Severe Cyclonic Storm and lay centred at 2330 hrs of May 24 over East-central Bay of Bengal near latitude 17.6°N and longitude 89.0°E, about 390 km south-southeast of Paradip (Odisha), 490 km south-southeast of Balasore (Odisha), 470 km south-southeast of Digha (West Bengal) and 500 kms south-southwest of Khepupara (Bangladesh).
Cyclone Yaas Intensifies Into Very Severe Cyclonic Storm: Weather Office Cyclone Yaas Intensifies Into Very Severe Cyclonic Storm: Weather Office The Indian Meteorological Department also issued a red-coded warning alert to the Odisha and West Bengal coasts.
Cyclone Yaas is likely to gain a maximum speed of 155 kmph to 165 kmph during landfall.
Kolkata/New Delhi/Bhubaneswar/Ranchi/Patna:
Cyclone Yaas intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday evening, Indian Meteorological Department Director General M Mohapatra said, even as the states of West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand aggressively evacuated over 12 lakh people to storm shelters by late evening.
The IMD also issued a red-coded warning alert to the Odisha and West Bengal coasts.
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