The India Meteorological Department on Wednesday, in its bulletin on cyclone, stated that after super cyclone Amphan makes landfall over the Bengal coast today evening, it is very likely to continue to move north-northeastwards across Gangetic West Bengal and Bangladesh before gradually weakening.
“It is likely to maintain the intensity of cyclonic storm till the morning of May 21,” the weather department said in its bulletin.
Thereafter, Amphan will weaken into a Deep Depression over Bangladesh, the IMD stated.
Th cyclone weakened into an extremely severe cyclonic storm as it moved closer to the coast, triggering rainfall in several parts of Odisha, while West Bengal remained on high alert.
The state governments have stepped up efforts to evacuate people near the coast, and nearly 4 Lakh people have been evacuated.
. The cyclone is likely to move north-northeast over the Bay of Bengal and cross the West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts between Digha and Hatia Islands. This is the second such tropical storm over the Bay of Bengal in two decades.
The Border Security Force (BSF) has moved its three floating border posts or ships and 45 other patrol boats deployed to guard the India-Bangladesh riverine front in the Sunderbans and Icchamati river in West Bengal to safe anchorage in view of the cyclonic storm ‘Amphan’, officials said.
These vessels are used by the south Bengal frontier of the border force to guard about 350 kms of the riverine border in this area.
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