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‘Bulbul’ likely to bring heavy rain to Odisha
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- The cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ over east-central Bay of Bengal may skip Odisha coast, but the State government has taken no chance and has kept its coastal districts prepared for the storm, which is likely to bring heavy rainfall.
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- The cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ over the east-central Bay of Bengal moved northwestwards with a speed of 21 kmph during past six hours and lay centred about 560 km south-southeast of Paradip (Odisha), 680 km south-southeast of Sagar Islands (West Bengal) and 740 km south-southwest of Khepupara (Bangladesh),” says IMD bulletin.
- ‘Maha’ spares Gujarat
- In a major relief to the people of Gujarat, cyclone ‘Maha’ fizzled out into the Arabian sea as a depression without making a landfall, as per IMD.
- The cyclone is likely to move east-northeast wards and weaken into a well marked low pressure area off the south Gujarat coast during the next 12 hours.
Sources
The Hindu