Cyclone Yaas: NDRF begins dispatching teams to Bengal, Odisha

After ‘Cyclone Tauktae’ ravaged the west coast of the nation earlier this week, the east coast is now going through the specter of ‘Cyclone Yaas’. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has begun positioning its teams in West Bengal and Odisha following the climate division’s alert that the cyclone might hit these states on the jap coast of the nation round May 26-27, 

NDRF teams that are at present concerned in rescue and restoration work in areas affected by Cyclone Tauktae are being known as again to be relocated. 

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NDRF Director General S N Pradhan tweeted that the pressure has determined to “airlift” West Bengal and Odisha-based teams of the pressure in view of Cyclone Yaas and its ‘potential influence’ within the coastal districts of the 2 states.

The precise variety of NDRF teams to be earmarked for the most recent cyclone might be determined as per inputs obtained from the India Meteorological Department. 

The central pressure had earmarked a complete of 101 teams for the extraordinarily extreme cyclonic storm Tauktae that developed within the Arabian Sea and primarily affected the costal areas of Gujarat and states like Maharashtra and Goa, other than a number of others on the western shoreline of the nation.

Talking about Yaas, the IMD had on Thursday stated {that a} low strain space may be very probably to kind over north Andaman Sea and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal round May 22.

“It is very likely to intensify gradually into a cyclonic storm during the subsequent 72 hours. It is very likely to move northwestwards and reach West Bengal-Odisha coasts around 26th May evening,” the Cyclone Warning Division of the IMD had stated.

The title Yaas has been given to the potential cyclone by Oman, as per a typical protocol of naming such cyclonic storms in rotation by affected nations in the identical space.

Tauktae made landfall on Monday evening close to Una city in Gir Somnath district of Gujarat and wreaked havoc for round 28 hours earlier than it weakened right into a melancholy.

(With PTI inputs)

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