Another cyclone Yaas looms for India, week after deadly storm Tauktae
This RAMMB/CIRA handout satellite image shows a cyclone(R) approaching eastern India on May 23, 2021
A severecycloneis brewing offIndia's eastern coast, the nation's weather bureau warned Sunday, as the death toll rosefrom a majorstormthat wreaked havoc in the west of the virus-hit nation lastweek.
Moving northwards in the Bay of Bengal, the depression was set to form acyclone,to be dubbed Yaas, before intensifying and hitting the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday, theIndiaMeteorological Department said.
Thestormcould pack winds of up to 165 kilometres (100 miles) per hour, hitting occasional highs of up to 185kph by mid-Wednesday as a "Very Severe CyclonicStorm", the third-worst category, the department said.
It also warned ofstormsurges of up to four metres (13 feet) high in coastal areas.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday he had chaired a meeting on the approachingstorm, with the military and disaster teams deployed to help with the preparations and potential rescue operations.
CycloneYaas is set to hit soonafterCycloneTauktae,India's first major tropicalstormthis season, which battered the western state of Gujarat late Monday.
The death toll from thestormrose to at least 140 on Sunday, with 70 bodies recoveredafterthecyclonehit an oil rig off Mumbai and several support vessels, the navy said.
Around 600 people were rescued by the navy but five remain missing from an accommodation barge for oil workers that ripped free of its anchors in thestormand sank.
"Search & Rescue ops by ships and helicopters/aircraft will continue in the area to locate the remaining crew of the sunken vessels," the navy said in a statement Sunday.
India's neighbour Bangladesh, which borders West Bengal, said it was monitoring Yaas.
"All the boats and fishing trawlers have been ordered to come close to the coast as a precautionary measure. Tomorrow (Monday) we will have better idea where it is heading," Bangladesh Meteorological Department senior weather forecaster Bazlur Rashid told AFP.
Also read |Indian Coast Guard teams on stand-by, fishermen, sailors alerted for Cyclone ‘Yaas’ on East Coast
Scientists say cyclones in the densely populated region, currently reeling from adeadlywave of Covid-19 infections, are becoming both more frequent and stronger as climate change leads to warmer sea temperatures.
Last May, more than 110 people diedafter"supercyclone" Amphan ravaged easternIndiaand Bangladesh, flattening villages, destroying farms and leaving millions without electricity.