Cyclone Amphan Update: Heavy rain, wind hit coastal districts of Odisha

Cyclone Amphan speed up at 175 km per hrs with heavy rain  Odisha, West Bengal

Cyclone impact in Odisha and West Bengal coast 

The Jagatsinghpur administration runs against the time of moving people to safety in view of the huge Amphan storm. To justify the fatal casualties, the authorities have decided to evacuate 25,000 people from Paradip, Erasama, Kujang, and Balikuda areas to storm shelters and other similar areas.

                                                However, by Tuesday evening, it had managed to evacuate 4,665 people. The evacuations will continue in all eight districts of the district until midnight, said Col. Sangram Keshari Mohapatra. Apart from the 58 storm shelters, the riots are being kept in Anganwadi centers, educational institutions and given dry food packs. In addition, food supplies have been stored in 26 relief camps. Cyclone Amphan, and one of the largest storms in the Bay of Bengal in two decades, overturned the coastal regions of Odisha early on Wednesday morning, as a gust of wind blew more than 100 kilometers per hour (km/hr) through Paradip.

The cyclone lies 110 km south-southeast of the city port.

Although it is expected that the Amphan region is located in the center of the Sagar island in the neighboring areas of western Bengal and the Hatia islands of Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon, a storm, the strongest in the Bay of Bengal since the 1999 sky. clearing of trees and electrical poles in Jagminihpur and Kendrapara districts.

Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said that although Amphan was traveling at about 20kmph on Tuesday, it dropped to 11kmph in the last six hours. "We are expected to accompany the track we have been waiting for. It will go down from time to time between Wednesday afternoon and evening," said HR Biswas, director of the provincial office in Bhubaneswar.