Cyclone Fani made landfall near Puri, India, around 8 a.m. on Friday, after more than a million people were evacuated . The fast moving storm lashed the coast with gusts of more than 120 m.p.h. Threat of Storm Surge and Sustained WindThe greatest threat to residents was drowning — from flash flooding, storm surges that could reach 10 to 15 feet in some areas, and flooding from rivers in the days after the storm lands, said Derrick Herndon, an associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.

Source: International New York Times May 02, 2019 20:23 UTC