After Tauktae, ‘Yaas’ brews in Bay of Bengal

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 19

As the weakened cyclonic storm Tauktae entered North India, bringing widespread rains to many parts of the region today, the IMD said another cyclone, “Yaas”, is brewing on the eastern side of the country in what is yet another evidence of climate change.

A low-pressure area (LPA) is likely to form in the Bay of Bengal around May 22, which will develop into a cyclonic storm on May 25 to reach the West Bengal-Odisha coasts around May 26 evening.

Experts say tropical cyclones are becoming fiercer, quicker and frequent due to climate change. Even as the western coast continued to reel under the impact of the rain and wind fury, the effect of Cyclone Tauktae was felt as far as northwest India, where its remnant today interacted with a western disturbance to bring “fairly widespread to widespread rains in the region”.

Heavy to very heavy rains were experienced in Uttarakhand, UP, Himachal, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, northeast Rajasthan, and north Madhya Pradesh, the IMD said.