Agartala, May 16: With cyclone Mahasen likely to hit Tripura on Thursday night, the State may witness heavy rains and a gale with a speed of 50-60 kmph, the meteorological office said here.
“There is likely to be heavy rain in the State in the next two days with wind blowing at a speed of 50-60 Km per hour,” Met Director Dilip Saha told PTI.
“The effects of the cyclone might slightly be felt in southern and eastern part of the State from Thursday night. We have not found anything to sound an alert,” Mr. Saha said.
The State Disaster Management Department, however, alerted people of Kanchanpur and Gandaceherra subdivisions of northern and eastern part of the State and Amarpur and Sabroom subdivisions of southern Tripura about the cyclone, official sources said.
The cyclone had hit Bangladesh earlier in the day and is likely to move north-easterly further and may cross the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar coast during the day.
The Sabroom border in southern Tripura is located about 75 km from the Bay of Bengal in Chittagong division of the neighbouring country.
