Cyclone Yaas Turns Severe Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar & Jharkhand On High Alert
Bhubaneswar – Cyclone Yaas has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm on Monday night and it is expected to make landfall early Wednesday. The disaster relief teams have already been deployed in West Bengal as well as Odisha, which will face the brunt of this cyclonic storm. Yaas is expected to make landfall between Paradeep and Sagar islands close to Balasore in Odisha, early on Wednesday morning and could pack sustain winds of up to 165 kilometers per hour.
According to India Meteorological Department, the IMD has also predicted a tidal surge of 2 to 4.5 meters during the landfall of Yaas. The state’s on India’s eastern coast Bihar and Jharkhand are on alert as well ahead of Cyclone Yaas which has been brewing in the Bay of Bengal.
The massive storm comes as India’s already battling a second wave of COVID-19 complications and it also comes shortly after the cyclonic storm we saw on the western coast of India Cyclone Tauktae. Well, these storms have of course complicated the efforts to deal with both the pandemic as well as the cyclones.
