Mongla and Payra ports have been asked to hoist danger signal number seven on a scale of 10, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department . Market leader IndiGo canceled all flights to Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, for Thursday. Cyclone Fani is likely to have a sustained wind speed of 170-180 kilometers per hour when it hits the coast on Friday. That compares with Hudhud storm’s wind speed of 180 kilometers in 2014, according to data from the weather office. Cyclone Phailin , that battered Odisha and parts of Andhra Pradesh in 2013, saw surface wind speed of about 215 kilometers per hour.

Source: Economic Times May 02, 2019 14:26 UTC