Cyclone Yaas landfalls Near Dhamra
- 26-May-2021
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Cyclone Yaas began at 9 am on Wednesday near the Dhamra port in Odisha's Bhadrak district. The location of the landfall is north of Dhamra and south of Bahanaga, close to Bahanaga block, on the coast, around 50 km of Balasore.
The wind speed during landfall was at 130-140 kmph, gusting to 155 kmph.
‘The landfall process has begun and will take three to four hours to complete. The maximum impact will be in Balasore and Bhadrak districts,’ Odisha's Special Relief Commissioner PK Jena said.
Around 5.80 lakh people have been shifted to safe shelters.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) earlier predicted that the wind speed during the landfall would be around 155-165 kmph, gusting to 185 kmph.
The landfall process was delayed for some hours with the system's velocity decreasing to 12 kmph from 15-16 kmph.
The cyclone did not intensify any further after 2 am.
