Cyclone Dana is most likely to track northwest-wards and move across Odisha through the day on Friday and further weaken into a deep depression towards evening, the Met officials said.

Heavy rain and gusty winds impacted normal lives in Odisha and West Bengal as Cyclone Dana battered India's eastern coast disrupting some civic services and damaging crops and trees. The landfall process began on Thursday midnight and is expected to gradually slow down in the early hours of Friday.

The closure of the airport was done as a precaution after Cyclone Dana made landfall in Odisha in the wee hours of Friday. The schedule of the suspension of flight operations was from 6 P.M. on Thursday to 9 A.M. on Friday.