Bangladesh has flagged local warning signal 4 for maritime ports raising it from the distant warning signal No. 2, as Cyclone Fani tracking over the Bay of Bengal has turned extremely severe.
Fani continues to strengthen and may directly hit the eastern India coastline later this week, reports bdnews24.com
More than 100 million people are in the potential path of this life-threatening tropical cyclone, according to an AccuWeather report.
Fani is currently an extremely severe cyclonic storm with winds equal to a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic or East Pacific oceans.
It is expected to remain a powerful and dangerous cyclone as it approaches and makes landfall along the coast of eastern India between Thursday night and Friday, AccuWeather said in the report.
Residents from northern Andhra Pradesh to Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar are at risk for impacts from the approaching cyclone.
