Cyclone poised to strike

A severe cyclonic storm, Mora, was formed over the north and adjoining east central Bay of Bengal on Sunday, which was expected to hit Bangladesh coast this morning, the Dhaka Met office said.

The Met office in a special cyclone bulletin asked Chittagong and Cox's Bazar ports to hoist great danger signal number 10 and Mongla and Payra ports danger signal number eight.

Till yesterday afternoon, the Met office classified the storm as a medium scale adverse event. However, the storm intensified further and gathered strength by evening and the office reclassified it as a severe cyclonic storm.

Some coastal areas in the country were experiencing thunderstorms with heavy rain since yesterday afternoon.