In view of these forecasts, the IMD has issued a red warning (meaning ‘take action’) over the Saurashtra-Kutch subdivision and a yellow watch (meaning ‘be updated’) for interior parts of Gujarat on Thursday. Thereafter, heavy to extremely heavy rainfall (from 64.5 mm to more than 224.5 mm) has been forecast over isolated parts of North Gujarat on Friday and Saturday (June 16-17). Gujarat in for extremely heavy downpours, gale windsĪs it barrels across Gujarat, Cyclone Biparjoy will bring up to extremely heavy downpours (more than 224.5 mm) in isolated parts of Kachchh, Devbhumi Dwarka and Jamnagar and heavy to very heavy rains (115.5 mm-224.5 mm) at a few places in Porbandar, Rajkot, Morbi, Junagarh and the remaining districts of Saurashtra and north Gujarat region on Thursday. Thereafter, the system is predicted to slowly track northeastwards and rapidly de-intensify into a Severe Cyclonic Storm by 11:30 PM on Thursday, a Cyclonic Storm early on Friday morning (June 16), and finally a Depression over Rajasthan by Friday night. From there, the system will track northeastward over the northeast Arabian Sea, and by Thursday evening (June 15), it will cross the Gujarat coast as a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 120-130 km/h, gusting to 145 km/h. And the first June cyclone to cross the Gujarat coast in 25 years looks set to bring torrential, possibly destructive rains across the West Indian state for the next 48 hours.Īs per the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) latest bulletin, Cyclone Biparjoy lay a mere 180 km west-southwest of Gujarat’s Jakhau Port as of 5:30 AM this morning.
Thursday, June 15: Cyclonic storm Biparjoy has been dragging itself across the length of the Arabian Sea for over 200 hours now and is slated to make landfall between the India-Pakistan border this evening.
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