Sri Lanka ordered the closure of schools in several parts of the island and India deployed rescue teams to the south of the country on Wednesday (December 2nd), before being hit by "
Burevi
", the second cyclone to threaten the region in a week.
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According to the weather forecast, "
Burevi
" will blow in Sri Lanka gusts which could reach 100 km / hour by making landfall at the end of the day Wednesday, before moving west and hitting India some 24 hours later. .
As a result, Sri Lanka decided to close schools in the north and east for three days and asked fishermen not to go out to sea.
In India, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) announced Tuesday evening that it had deployed 26 of its teams to the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
"
Ready for the cyclone,
" Shri SN Pradhan, director general of the NDRF, tweeted Wednesday.
The Indian meteorological department has placed several areas of these two states on red alert and suspended fishing activities in some areas until Friday.
Already last Thursday, a powerful cyclone had skirted the north of Sri Lanka before hitting Tamil Nadu with full force, uprooting trees, flooding some regions with 30 centimeters of rain in a few hours.
The rapid evacuation of several hundred thousand people upstream, thanks to the accuracy of the weather forecast, had allowed the number of deaths to be limited to three, according to the authorities.
Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh are regularly battered by torrential rains and violent storms, with their share of casualties and destruction, each year especially during the monsoon.
