Hours after making landfall and causing havoc in Odisha on Friday, Cyclone Fani uprooted trees and triggered rains as it entered West Bengal post-midnight on Saturday. One of the strongest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in decades, Cyclone Fani relatively weakened after entering coastal Odisha and transformed into "very severe" as it approached Bengal.

No loss of life or any injury has been reported so far.

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Commenting on the situation, Regional Meteorological Centre's Deputy Director General Sanjib Bandyopadhyay said, "The severe cyclonic storm Fani entered Bengal at 12.30 a.m. through Odisha's Balasore. It crossed Kharagpur packing a wind of 70-80 kmph, gusting to 90 kmph."

"It is likely to continue further in north, northeast direction, and reach the east Burdwan-Hooghly border, and through Nadia go to Bangladesh on Saturday afternoon, weakening into a cyclonic storm, after having triggered rains," Bandyopadhyay said.