Tropical Cyclone Amphan
Top officials from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) briefed the media over cyclone Amphan on Tuesday and said that Amphan will be ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’ when it makes landfall on May 20. Live updates with Deccanherald NDRF Director General SN Pradhan said that there are 24 teams on standby and every battalion that has been deployed has 4 teams. IMD chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said Amphan is the most intense cyclone and the second super cyclone which has been formed in the Bay of Bengal after 1999. Resister for sms based cyclone alart “Its wind speed in the sea right now is 200-240 kilometre per hour (kmph). It is moving towards the north-northwestward direction,” Mohapatra said. ...