The storm moved north-northwest at a velocity of 15 kmph over the previous six hours earlier than making landfall between Bhitarkanika in Kendrapara district and Dhamra in Bhadrak, with wind speeds of round 110 kmph, a senior IMD official stated.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) stated the landfall means of extreme cyclonic storm Dana started on the Odisha coast on Thursday night time and was expected to continue till Friday morning.
The storm moved north-northwest at a velocity of 15 kmph over the previous six hours earlier than making landfall between Bhitarkanika in Kendrapara district and Dhamra in Bhadrak, with wind speeds of round 110 kmph, a senior IMD official stated.
“The landfall course of has commenced and the ahead sector of the wall cloud area is getting into into land. The course of will continue until Friday morning,” Umashankar Das, senior scientist on the Regional Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar, advised PTI. When the system’s heart reaches land, wind speeds are expected to attain 120 kmph, he stated.
Das famous that the landfall means of the climate system will final for about 4 to 5 hours. “The system is under continuous surveillance of the Doppler weather radar at Paradip,” he stated.
Earlier within the day, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi stated that each Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had enquired in regards to the Odisha authorities’s preparedness to deal with the state of affairs arising out of the cyclone.
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