Cyclonic storm Jawad, which is expected to reach the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh coast by Saturday morning, is likely to make landfall somewhere in Puri district on Sunday, before heading out to the Bay of Bengal, Special Relief Commissioner PK Jena said on Friday. Going by the projected trajectory of the cyclone, as issued by the India Meteorological Department, the system may strike the Puri coast and return to the sea, he said. Wind speed, during the landfall, will remain around 90-100 Kilometers per hour, the SRC stated. The speed may gradually decrease after touching the Odisha coast. According to its latest bulletin, the storm lies 420 Kilometers south-southeast of Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, and 530 Kilometers south-southeast of Gopalpur, and 650 Kilometers south-southwest of Paradip in Odisha. On Friday, the weather department has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in Andhra and Odisha where an orange alert has been issued, and Bengal.
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