Cyclone Dana FAQs: As Odisha, Bengal brace for landfall, all you need to know about the storm

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Cyclone Dana

📌Where does it get its sanction from?

Suggested by Qatar to the World Meteorological Organisation/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (WMO/ESCAP), the sanction Dana means “generosity” successful Arabic and was termed according to the modular normal of naming tropical cyclones successful the region. WMO/ESCAP, a radical of nations, comprises of 13 countries, including Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. While the erstwhile 8 came unneurotic successful 2000, the second 5 were joined successful 2018.

📌Where volition Cyclone Dana marque its landfall?

The storm, that is presently implicit east-central Bay of Bengal is apt to intensify into a terrible cyclonic tempest and marque landfall betwixt Bhitarkanika National Park and Dhamra port.

In a station connected X, IMD said, Cyclone Dana “is precise apt to determination northwestwards and intensify into a terrible cyclonic tempest implicit northwest Bay of Bengal by aboriginal greeting of 24th and transverse northbound Odisha and West Bengal coasts betwixt Puri and Sagar Island adjacent to Bhitarkanika-Dhamra (Odisha) during nighttime of 24th to greeting of 25th October, 2024 arsenic a terrible Cyclonic Storm with a upwind velocity of 100-110 kmph gusting 120 kmph.”

📌What areas volition beryllium affected?

Odisha

The cyclone is expected to bring airy to mean rainfall successful astir places, and highly dense rainfall successful isolated places implicit Baleswar, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsingpur Kendujhar, Jajpur, Cuttack and Dhenkanal, Khorda and Puri districts of Odisha connected 24th and 25th October. While, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore districts are expected to look the maximum interaction of the cyclone, the Met Department forecast that respective different coastal and interior districts are besides expected to person rainfall successful the aforesaid period.

West Bengal

Heavy rainfall is besides expected implicit isolated places successful South and North 24 Parganas, East and West Medinipur, Jhargram, Howrah, Hooghly, Kolkata and Bankura districts of Gangetic West Bengal owed to the cyclonic storm.

📌Evacuation efforts and information measures

Odisha has already evacuated implicit a cardinal radical from areas that volition beryllium deed by Cyclone Dana and Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi asked territory administrations to implicit the evacuation process.

Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari stated that the authorities has identified implicit 3,000 susceptible locations (villages) crossed 14 districts, chiefly on the coastal belt, and started evacuation procedures. “As galore arsenic 10,60,336 radical are apt to beryllium evacuated earlier Cyclone Dana makes landfall”, it added.

Meanwhile, elder IAS officers are monitoring the situation, the Odisha authorities has assigned 9 districts to 9 ministers to supervise alleviation and rescue activities connected the ground.

Additionally, arsenic the second-largest mangrove ecosystem aft the Sundarbans, Bhitarkanika is expected to look the landfall, Sudarshan Gopinath Jadhav, DFO, mangrove wildlife division, Rajnagar said, “If the h2o level increases, determination are chances that the crocodiles whitethorn determination to quality settlements. We person formed 2 teams, each comprising 7 persons, and provided them instrumentality to rescue crocodiles. Five different teams person besides been formed for rescue of snakes from quality habitations.”

📌What has Odisha CM said?

Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi asked territory administrations to expedite the evacuation process and aft taking banal of the concern helium told mediapersons, “The authorities authorities is afloat prepared to tackle immoderate concern arises. I impulse radical not to panic. You are successful harmless hands. We person been intimately monitoring the concern with the assistance of aggregate systems.”

Meanwhile, Former Chief Minister and BJD main Naveen Patnaik said, “Awareness and caution volition support america from imaginable tempest ‘dana’. Storms person travel galore times, and we person weathered them with strength. As with each storms, let’s instrumentality each precaution to enactment harmless this clip too. Taking attraction of yourself and your loved ones. Fear not, fto america each beryllium vigilant.”, helium wrote successful a station connected X.

📌Trains and flights affected

Airport officials stated connected Wednesday that.all formation operations astatine Kolkata Airport volition stay suspended from 6 p.m. connected October 24 to 9 americium connected October 25. All stakeholders, including ATC, CNS different cardinal airdrome officials, to guarantee the information of passengers and craft unanimously decided to suspend operations.

Meanwhile, implicit 300 trains person been cancelled and the Eastern Railway has besides decided to suspend each section bid services from Sealdah presumption starting 8 p.m. connected Thursday until 10 americium connected Friday.

Officials stated that the determination was taken arsenic a precautionary measurement for the information of passengers successful the Sealdah division, which serves six districts of West Bengal: North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Nadia, Murshidabad, Kolkata, and Howrah.

📌What is IMD saying astir its path?

Currently located implicit the East-Central Bay of Bengal, cyclone Dana has moved northwestward astatine a velocity of 12 kmph implicit the past six hours and was centered astatine 2.30 p.m. IST connected Wednesday astir 540 km south-southeast of Sagar Island, West Bengal, IMD stated.

According to the upwind office, it is expected to intensify into a terrible cyclonic tempest implicit the Northwest Bay of Bengal by the aboriginal greeting of Thursday and transverse the North Odisha and West Bengal coasts betwixt Puri and Sagar Island, adjacent Bhitarkanika and Dhamara (Odisha), during the nighttime to Friday morning.

📌What astir tourists successful Odisha and Bengal?

As rainfall lashes parts of West Bengal and Odisha, tourists and pilgrims from coastal areas person been asked to permission and each up-down trains connected the Sealdah South enactment and Barasat-Hasnabad enactment person been cancelled.

Meanwhile, tourer attractions specified arsenic the Nandankanan Zoo and State Botanical Garden volition besides stay closed for visitors connected Thursday and Friday. The authorities had besides closed Similipal Tiger Reserve and Bhitarkanika National Park for tourists from October 23 to 25, fixed the impending storm.

📌When was the past clip a cyclone deed the region?

The coastline of West Bengal was struck with the archetypal large tropical cyclone of the year, Cyclone Remal connected May 29. Though effectual aboriginal informing systems and timely evacuations were successful spot to trim quality casualties, astatine slightest 16 radical crossed Bangladesh and India died successful the calamity. Heavy rainfall caused by the cyclone triggered landslides successful respective places successful Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam, and Nagaland which resulted successful deaths of 30 people.

The IMD had said that with Remal weakening into a heavy depression, dense rainfall was apt implicit parts of West Bengal and northeastern states, which tin beryllium expected aft Cyclone Dana.

Cyclone Dana is the 2nd to make successful the North Indian Ocean successful little than 2 months, aft Cyclone Asna successful the Arabian Sea successful precocious August.