Cyclone Amphan is creating into a significant cyclonic storm around the Bay of Bengal and can come to be a quite significant cyclonic storm in the following 24 hrs, in accordance to the Countrywide Disaster Reaction Pressure (NDRF). The NDRF mentioned that it was ready to undertake enormous evacuation of one.one million people likely to be strike by it. As the storm rolls in to the Indian shores ominously, the cyclone is likely to unleash heavy rain and superior-velocity winds in substantial swathes of coastal Odisha, West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Twelve coastal Odisha districts — Ganjam, Gajapti, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Jajpur, Cuttack, Khorda and Nayagarh — are on superior notify.