Some Odisha districts witnessed wind speeds of 110 kmph and intensely heavy rain.
New Delhi:
Cyclone Dana at the moment made landfall on the Odisha coast resulting in heavy rain and robust winds in a number of areas. The storm made landfall between Bhitarkanika within the Kendrapara district and Dhamra in Bhadrak, with wind pace of round 110 kmph.
Right here Are 10 Factors On Cyclone Dana:
The landfall means of Cyclone Dana started on the Odisha coast round midnight with the districts of Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Balasore and Jagatsinghpur witnessing wind speeds of 110 kmph and intensely heavy rain.
“The landfall course of would proceed for the subsequent 1-2 hours,” the Indian Meteorological Division (IMD) mentioned in an replace round 6 am.
Dana, which was named by Qatar, is prone to weaken regularly right into a cyclonic storm by at the moment forenoon, the climate company added.
Stories of timber getting uprooted had been obtained on the workplace of the Particular Reduction Commissioner within the Odisha capital Bhubaneswar.
In neighbouring West Bengal, East Midnapore and Kolkata additionally witnessed the influence of the cyclone.
The companies at Bhubaneswar’s Biju Patnaik Worldwide Airport and Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Worldwide Airport, which had been suspended on Thursday night as a part of precautionary measures, will resume at 9:00 am at the moment.
Authorities in each states evacuated lakhs of individuals, shut faculties, cancelled greater than 400 trains, and suspended flight operations as they braced for the extreme cyclonic storm.
In Odisha, the Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi-led authorities mentioned that they’ve evacuated about 5.8 lakh folks and deployed 385 rescue groups comprising Nationwide Catastrophe Response Power (NDRF) groups, Odisha Catastrophe Speedy Motion Power (ODRAF) 51, Fireplace Service and Forest workers. About 150 platoons (1 platoon comprising 30 personnel) of Odisha Police have additionally been pressed into service for rescue, street clearing and different actions on the floor degree.
In Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned 2,43,374 folks have taken shelter in camps.
She additionally stayed all the Thursday night time on the state secretariat and personally monitored the scenario.
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