Several trees were uprooted due to gusty winds and heavy incessant rains in the Bhadrak district of Odisha as the landfall process of Cyclone 'Dana' continues in the early hours of Friday.
The state administration is gearing up to combat the impact of the cyclone Dana whose landfall is expected to be on the intervening night of Thursday and morning of Friday at a place between Paradeep and Sagar Island.
The floods that followed caused extensive damage, submerging 6,675 houses and nearly 1,698 rice paddies, while 617 houses were destroyed, according to the BNGRC.
The depression that was anticipated to become a deep depression today is now tipped to turn into a cyclonic storm on Friday night and make landfall in Bangladesh in the early morning on Saturday.
Hurricane Idalia, which has made landfall as a Category 3 storm in the US state of Florida, inflicted a heavy…
China's National Meteorological Centre (NMC) on Tuesday issued a yellow alert for Doksuri, the fifth typhoon of this year expected to bring gales and heavy rain to the country's southern coastal regions.
The weather agency has warned that by Tuesday morning up to 200 mm of rain is expected to lash southern Kyushu and Shikoku.
As per the report, till afternoon, over 16,000 people have evacuated from low-lying and vulnerable areas, he said.
Cyclone Warning Centre Visakhapatnam warned that tidal wave of about 0.5 m height above the astronomical tide likely to inundate low lying areas of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Ganjam districts during the time of landfall
A tidal wave of about 0.5 meters in height above the astronomical tide is likely to inundate low-lying areas of Srikakulam, Sompeta, Vizianagaram, Ganjam districts in Andhra Pradesh during the time of landfall.
