Cyclone Remal has made landfall on Bangladesh coastlines and is hurtling towards West Bengal. The cyclonic storm is expected to make a landfall in West Bengal around midnight on Sunday with a wind speed of 110-120 km per hour, gusting to 135 kmph.
Cyclonic storm Remal over the North Bay of Bengal moved nearly northwards, with a speed of 13 kmph during the past 6 hours about 125 km east-southeast of West Bengal’s Sagar Islands, 135 km southwest of Khepupara in Bangladesh, 130 km south-southeast of Canning in West Bengal and 150 km south-southwest of Mongla in Bangladesh, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a statement.
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The Met Office has warned of extremely heavy rainfall in the coastal districts of West Bengal and north Odisha on May 26-27.
Cyclone Remal Top Points
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday conducted a meeting to review the response and preparedness for Cyclone Remal.
- “Reviewed the preparedness in the wake of Cyclone Remal. Took stock of the disaster management infrastructure and other related aspects. I pray for everyone’s safety and well-being,” the prime minister wrote in an X post.
- A total of 14 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are deployed in West Bengal to assist in rescue and relief operations considering the landfall of cyclonic storm Remal, the NDRF said in a statement.
- According to an AFP report, at least 8 lakh Bangladeshis fled their coastal villages on Sunday for concrete storm shelters further inland as the country prepared for cyclone Remal, top government disaster officials said.
- The Tripura government on Sunday issued a red alert in four districts — South, Dhalai, Khowai, and West — in view of severe cyclonic storm ‘Remal’.
- Flight operations at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata have been shut down in view of cyclone Remal.
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