• Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in decades, made landfall near Puri, India, around 8 a.m. on Friday, lashing the coast with winds gusting at more than 120 miles per hour. • Tens of millions of people are potentially in the cyclone’s path, and more than a million were evacuated this week from coastal areas. Large sections of coastal India and Bangladesh are threatened by storm surges, and heavy rains could cause rivers to breach. • The fast-moving storm struck the coast as the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. Soon after making landfall, meteorolgists predicted it would be downgraded within hours to a “very severe” storm from an “extremely severe” storm.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2019 03:30 UTC