Lagatar24 Desk
Howrah, Dec.4: Cyclone Jawad has led the Indian Railways to cancel 36 trains planned to depart on December 4. Trains which were to depart from Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Howrah (West Bengal), and Puri are among them (Odisha).
In addition, 38 trains scheduled to depart on December 5 and one scheduled to depart on December 6 have been cancelled as a precaution.
East Coast Railway’s Divisional Railway Manager, AK Satpathy, who oversees large areas of Odisha and Northern Andhra Pradesh, said: “East Coast Railway’s Waltair Division is ready to confront the challenges posed by Cyclone Jawad. We’ve made contact with the state government, the SDRF, the NDRF, and other organisations. Our staff is on high alert and fully prepared.”
According to the most recent IMD bulletin, ‘Jawad’ is expected to gradually weaken and move nearly north-northeastwards along the Odisha coast, reaching Puri around noon on December 5th as a Deep Depression.
It is then expected to weaken further and move north-northeastwards along the Odisha coast toward the West Bengal shore, the IMD stated. Jawad moved slightly northwards at a pace of 4 kmph over the west-central Bay of Bengal during the previous six hours, according to the national weather forecasting office.
“Jawad lay centered at 05.30 hrs IST of today, December 4, 2021, over west-central Bay of Bengal near Latitude 16.2°N and Longitude 84.9°E, about 230 km southeast of Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 340 km south of Gopalpur (Odisha), 410 km south-southwest of Puri (Odisha) and 490 km south-southwest of Paradip (Odisha),” the IMD said.
