Cyclone Yaas begins landfall in Odisha with wind speed of 130-140 kmph

The landfall process of very severe cyclonic storm Yaas began at 9 am on Wednesday near the Dhamra port in Odishas Bhadrak district an official saidThe location of the landfall is north of Dhamra and south of Bahanaga close to Bahanaga block on the coast around 50 km of Balasore he saidThe wind speed during landfall was at 130140 kmph gusting to 155 kmph as per Doppler radar dataThe landfall process has begun and will take three four hours to complete The maximum impact will be in Balasore and Bhadrak districts Odishas Special Relief Commissioner PK Jena saidAround 580 lakh people have been shifted to safe shelters he saidWATCH Odisha Water from the sea floods the residential areas in Dhamra of Bhadrak district The landfall process of CycloneYaas is continuing It will take around 3 hours to complete It is 30 km southsoutheast of Balasore at 930 am as per IMDs update pictwittercomj6JMo2f3samdash ANI ANI May 26 2021The India Meteorological Department IMD earlier predicted that the wind speed during the landfall would be around 155165 kmph gusting to 185 kmphThe landfall process was delayed for some hours with the systems velocity decreasing to 12 kmph from 1516 kmph Jena saidThe cyclone did not intensify any further after 2 am he saidIntense convective cloud mass has alraedy entered Odisha coast Artea of most intense convection is seen in the southwest sectormdash India Meteorological Department Indiametdept May 26 2021Since there has been a fall in intensification the wind speed was around 130140 kmph at the time of landfall instead of 165 kmph he saidThere was no report of any major damage though some incidents of trees getting uprooted have taken place he addedIn West Bengal the coastal areas in East Midnapore and South 24 Parganas were inundated owing to storm surge officials in Kolkata saidSeveral embankments including 51 in East Midnapore have been breached as the water level in the rivers in the coastal areas rose they saidAlso Read Storm kills two in West Bengal Odisha others evacuate lakhsThe maximum wind speed in the coastal resort town of Digha in East Midnapore reached around 90 km per hour It was 68 kmph at Fraserganj in South 24 Parganas and in Kolkata the highest wind speed was recorded at 62 kmphSeveral lowlying areas in South 24 Parganas and East Midnapore were inundated owing to high tidal wavesThe areas in south Bengal also received a good amount of rainfall since Tuesday nightThe Met department also warned of tidal waves of two four metres height above astronomical tide to inundate low lying coastal areas of East Midnapore and of two metres above astronomical tide in lowlying areas of South 24 ParganasAt 0930 hrs IST YASS NEAR LATITUDE 2125degN AND LONGITUDE 870degE ABOUT 30 KM SOUTHSOUTHEAST OF BALASORE Current intensity of the storm is 130140 KMPH GUSTING TO 155 KMPH SYSTEM TO CROSS ODISHA COAST TO THE SOUTH OF BALASORE WITH WIND SPEED OF 130140 GUSTING TO 155 KMPHmdash India Meteorological Department Indiametdept May 26 2021Most parts of Odisha also received rains said Umashankar Dash a scientist at the Regional Meteorological Centre in BhubaneswarChandbali in Bhadrak district received 273 mm rainfall the highest amount of rainfall in the last 24 hours in the state followed by Paradip 197 mm Balasore 51 mm Bhubaneswar 49 mmThe IMD has forecast massive storm surge for some places like Mohanpur in Bhadrak where the seawater may ingress 9 km into the landDash said that surge of 15 metre to 38 metre is likely in the area when the wind speed hits a peak during landfall The reason behind such a high storm surge is also partially due to fullmoon activityThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever