Bhubaneswar, October 25: The Cyclone Dana which continues making landfall on the Odisha Coast today is likely to toss the ground somewhere between Dhamra and Bhitarkanika.
Cyclone Dana’s centre lies close to the Odisha coast near Habalikhati nature camp Bhitarkanika informed the IMD, in its recent bulletin issued in view of the ensuing landfall.
According to the IMD, the severe cyclonic storm “DANA” moving over northwest Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards with a speed of 15 kmph during past 6 hours and lay centred at 2330 hrs IST of yesterday, the 24th October, over the same region, near latitude 20.5° N and longitude 87.1°E, about 50 km east-northeast of Paradip (Odisha), 40 km south-southeast of Dhamara (Odisha) and 160 km southwest of Sagar Island (West Bengal).
It is very likely to move north-northwestwards and cross north Odisha and West Bengal coasts between Puri and Sagar Island close to Bhitarkanika and Dhamara (Odisha) during next 3 to 4 hours as a severe Cyclonic Storm with a wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting 120 kmph.
Landfall process has commenced and the forward sector of the wall cloud region is entering into land. The landfall process would continue till today, the 25th October morning.
However, the system is yet under continuous and close surveillance of the Doppler Weather Radar at the Paradip Port to assess its further course of projection, informed the IMD Regional Center sources.
