Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in decades, made landfall near Puri, India, around 8 a.m. on Friday, striking the coast with winds gusting at more than 100 miles per hour. • Tens of millions of people are potentially in the cyclone’s path, and more than a million were evacuated this week from coastal areas. Large sections of coastal India and Bangladesh are threatened by storm surges, and heavy rains could cause rivers to breach and flood.
• The storm churned north through the Bay of Bengal on Thursday at the equivalent of a strong Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of about 155 miles per hour and near the range of a Category 5 storm, meteorologists said
Trees uprooted in several districts in Odisha; impact likely to last for 2 hours
Cyclone Fani, a severe cyclonic storm, made landfall impact on Friday, May 3, 2019 around 8.00 a.m. south of Puri on the Odisha coast. The entire process is expected to happen over the next two hours. The Odisha government on Thursday evacuated over 11 lakh people from low-lying areas in 15 districts.
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The 'extremely severe' cyclonic storm is likely to move north-northeastwards and weaken into a 'very severe' cyclonic storm over the next 6 hours, according to IMD.
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Fani crossed Odisha coast between 8.00-10.00 a.m.: IMD
The eye of the cyclone completely moved into land by 10.00 a.m and the cyclone crossed the Odisha coast close to Puri between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., according to IMD.
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FANI centered near lat 19.8 & long 85.7 at 0930 IST of today close to Puri, latest observations indicates that the eye of cyclone has completely moved into land by 1000 hrs IST. Thus the cyclone crossed Odisha coast between 0800 - 1000 IST.
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