Hurricane Laura

  After Cyclone Tauktae battered the states along the west coast, another cyclone is likely to hit the east coast by May 26, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday. Coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal will receive heavy to very heavy rainfall in most places from the evening of May 25, said RK Jenamani, senior scientist, IMD. Jenamani said a cyclonic system was developing in the Bay of Bengal near the Andaman Sea. "On May 22, the cyclonic circulation will start as a system. The next day, it will start moving in a north and north-west direction," he said. “Through Sunderbans the cyclone is likely to enter bringing high to very high rainfall in parts of South Bengal. Through West Bengal the cyclone Yash is likely to go towards Bangladesh. However, the actual movement of the cyclone can be monitored only before 48 hours of the development,” mentioned sources of the Met office. Notably, last year amidst lockdown super cyclone Amphan had brought in very sev

  Cyclone Tauktae Highlights, Severe Rainfall Alert in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, Kerala Highlights: Focus on midnight when the cyclone will leave Gujarat coastal system; Mumbai spared once again; around 20 dead so far Cyclone Tauktae Highlights, Weather Forecast Today Highlights:   Cyclone Tauktae has made landfall near Gujarat coast and the next two hours will be extremely critical, the IMD has said. Amid the deadly second wave of the coronavirus, the Western Ghats have been brutally hit by Cyclone Tauktae. A Burmese name that means a gecko, the storm is the first one that has emerged in the ocean system situated near the Indian Subcontinent. From heavy rainfall that states such as Kerala and Karnataka have experienced in the last 48 hours, Cyclone Tauktae has intensified into an ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’. Gujarat is in the way of it eye of storm and it is the strongest storm that the state has seen in the last 20 years. Though Mumbai was spared the ‘eye of storm’, the Max