Cyclone Yaas likely to make landfall near Odisha's Balasore on May 26

Cyclonic storm Yaas is very likely to make landfall near Balasore in north Odisha with a speed of 155 kmph to 165 kmph gusting to 185 kmph around noon on May 26 the Meteorological department said on MondayThe system which lay centred about 620 km southsoutheast of Balasore and 610 km southsoutheast of Digha in West Bengal over east central Bay of Bengal on Monday morning will move in a northnorthwesterly direction Sanjib Bandopadhyay the deputy director at the Regional Met Centre in Kolkata saidIt will intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by Monday night and further intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm by May 26 early morning he told reportersAlso ReadlsquoCyclones in the North Indian Ocean are gaining intensity and that too rapidlyIt will cross into the land between Paradip in Odisha and Sagar island in West Bengal close to Balasore Bandopadhyay saidThe system will have a sustained speed of 90 kmph to 100 kmph gusting to 110 kmph along and off Odisha coast on May 26 morning he saidAt the time of landfall near Balasore wind speed will reach 155 kmph to 165 kmph gusting to 185 kmph along and off Jagatsinghpur Kendrapara Bhadrak and Balasore districts in Odisha and in East Midnapore district of West Bengal Bandopadhyay saidCoastal areas of North and South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal will experience 90 kmph to 100 kmph wind speed gusting to 120 kmph he saidWind speed on May 26 in Kolkata Howrah and Hooghly will reach 70 kmph to 80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph he saidThe districts in Gangetic West Bengal will experience wind speed of 55 kmph to 65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph from May 26 evening to May 27 morning the Met official saidYaas will lead to storm surge on the coasts of Balasore Jagatsinghpur Kendrapara and Bhadrak in Odisha he saidIt will also cause a storm surge of two to four metres along the coastline of East Midnapore and one to two metres in the South 24 Parganas district he saidSea conditions will be very rough to phenomenal on May 26 the Met department warned and advised fishermen not to venture into the sea till further informationIn West Bengal the coastal districts of East and West Midnapore South and North 24 Parganas along with Howrah and Hooghly are experiencing light to moderate rainfall in many places since Monday noonModerate rainfall with heavy to a very heavy downpour at one or two places will occur in these places from May 25 owing to the system the weatherman saidOn May 26 the spread and intensity of rain will increase with the possibility of extremely heavy rainfall in Jhargram East and West Midnapore North and South 24 Parganas Howrah Hooghly and Kolkata Bandopadhyay saidThis 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