Cyclone Yaas: Four coastal Odisha districts put on high alert

Four coastal Odisha districts – Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore – have been put on high alert with ‘Yaas’ – very severe cyclonic storm – predicted to cross north Odisha-West Bengal bet

Four coastal Odisha districts – Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore – have been put on high alert with ‘Yaas’ – very severe cyclonic storm – predicted to cross north Odisha-West Bengal between Paradip and Sagar islands. Latest satellite imageries and Ocean Buoy observations indicate that Saturday’s low pressure area, which became well marked over east-central Bay of Bengal in the same evening concentrated into a depression over east-central Bay of Bengal, says a bulletin of India Meteorological department here on Sunday. The system lay-centred at about 560 km north-northwest of Port Blair (Andaman Islands), 590 km east-southeast of Paradip (Odisha), 690 km south-southeast of Balasore (Odisha) and 670 km south-southeast of Digha (West Bengal), says the bulletin.