Cyclone Dana: East Midnapore, South 24 Parganas likely to be worst affected in Bengal


Kolkata, Oct 24 (IANS): As Cyclone Dana inched closer to West Bengal's coast, the weather office has predicted that East Midnapore and portions of South 24 Parganas districts will be the worst affected in the state.

The cyclone was positioned 370 kilometres away from Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and 280 kilometres from Paradeep in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha.

The cyclone was expected to make landfall between Bhitarkanika of Kendrapara district and the Dhamara area of Bhadrak district in Odisha between Thursday night and early Friday morning.

As per predictions of the Regional Meteorological Office in Kolkata, after the cyclone's landfall, the wind speed in certain pockets of East Midnapore and South 24 Parganas districts was likely to be above 100 kilometres an hour.

The wind speed was also predicted to be higher in Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, North 24 Parganas and Bankura districts. The wind speed in Kolkata was expected to be between 60 and 70 kilometres.

However, the Meteorological Office has said Cyclone Dana's impact will be much less than Cyclone Amphan.

The fishermen have been barred from venturing into deep-sea fishing till Friday.

Educational institutions in the state's nine districts will remain shut till Friday.

According to the Meteorological Office, Cyclone Dana gradually shifted from the east-central position on the Bay of Bengal to the north-western side.

As a precautionary measure, train services have been suspended at both north and south sections of the Sealdah division of Eastern Railways for 14 hours from 8 p.m. on Thursday to 10 a.m. on Friday, with as many as 190 trains in the division being cancelled.

Similarly, 68 local trains in the Howrah division of Eastern Railways have been cancelled. Flight services have been cancelled at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata for 15 hours from Thursday starting from 6 p.m.

 

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Cyclone Dana: East Midnapore, South 24 Parganas likely to be worst affected in Bengal



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.