Cyclone Tauktae LIVE: Landfall process has begun in Gujarat, says IMD

Police deployed at the sea coastline forward of the landfall of Cyclone Tauktae, in close proximity to the shoreline in Veraval (Image: PTI)

Cyclone Tauktae Dwell updates: A pretty serious cyclonic storm ‘Tauktae’ with winds gusting up to 185 km per hour started creating landfall on the Gujarat coastline on Monday night time, just after dumping heavy rains in Mumbai, forcing the evacuation of around a hundred and fifty,000 persons in Gujarat and leaving two barges with 410 persons on board adrift in the Arabian Sea.

The cyclonic storm lies close to the Gujarat coastline, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) reported. “The landfall process has begun and will proceed during next two hours,” the IMD reported.

As a precuationary evaluate, major airports in the point out shutdown operations until Tuesday.

Meanwhile, additional than fifty five flights, equally incoming and outbound, were being cancelled at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Intercontinental Airport (CSMIA) on Monday just after the non-public airport operator was pressured to suspend all air solutions at eleven am thanks to cyclone ‘Tauktae’. These cancellations aside, some 7 incoming flights were being also diverted to several airports. The CSMIA for the fourth time in the day extended the closure of operations until ten pm just after to start with saying that the airport will continue being shut for three hours, starting eleven am.

Previously in the day, at least six persons dropped their lives so considerably in the Cyclone Tauktae-strike coastal and encompassing Malnad districts of Karnataka. According to a circumstance report by Karnataka Condition Catastrophe Management Authority officers, until this morning, 121 villages and 22 taluks have been affected by the cyclone so considerably.

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