The Regional Meteorological Department in Kolkata has forecasted that a ‘super cyclone’ is likely to hit the Sundarban areas between May 23 and May 25 and possibly move towards Bangladesh. The Met department warned that the brutality of the cyclonic storm ‘Yaas,’ named by Oman, might equal that of ‘Amphan’ that destroyed Kolkata and its surrounding areas on May 19 last year.

Though the Kolkata meteorological department is not sure about the direction and the speed of the wind they said that a low depression has been formed in the East Central Bay and it is increasing its size every day it might take the shape of a ‘Super Cyclone’ before making landfall by the end of the week.

The IMD said that a low-pressure area is likely to form over the east-central Bay of Bengal around May 23, 2021. An IMD bulletin states, “Dissolved to broken low and medium clouds with embedded intense to very intense convection layover southeast Bay of Bengal (bob), adjoining the equatorial Indian Ocean and Andaman sea. Scattered low and medium clouds with embedded moderate to intense convection lay over southwest Bay of Bengal.”

This will be the second cyclone India may see in the month after Cyclone Tauktae, which formed over the Arabian Sea and made landfall in Gujarat. The cyclone caused torrential rains in Mumbai, Konkan, parts of Gujarat, Karnataka, and Kerala as well.