Cyclone Remal news: Severe cyclonic storm ‘Remal’ is expected to make landfall between the coasts of Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal around Sunday midnight.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department, the Cyclone Remal was centred 125 km south-southeast of Sagar Island (West Bengal) and about 135 km southwest of Khepupara (Bangladesh) at 7.30 pm. Follow LIVE updates here.
“The outer cloud band lies over coastal areas of Bangladesh & West Bengal, India. The landfall process will commence in the next few hours,” the met department said in the latest bulletin.
This is the first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal in this pre-monsoon season and is named Remal (meaning sand in Arabic) according to a system of naming cyclones in the Indian Ocean region.
Cyclone Remal: Here are the latest updates
