Cyclone Vayu skirts Saurashtra coast, moves towards north-west Gujarat

According to Gujarat Chief Secretary J N Singh, the state government was prepared as it had consulted Odisha, which saw Cyclone Fani last month

As Cyclone Vayu progresses towards the Gujarat coast and is required to make landfall Thursday evening, the state government has moved around three lakh individuals from low-lying regions of Saurashtra and Kutch locales, authorities said Wednesday.

As indicated by the most recent meteorological forecast, the violent wind has strengthened into an “exceptionally extreme cyclonic tempest” and changed its course somewhat. Presently, it would hit the Gujarat coast anyplace between Veraval in the south and Dwarka in the west Thursday evening.

The twister is presently situated around 200 km south, south-west of Veraval and “is in all respects liable to move about northwards and hit the Gujarat coast with wind speed of 155 to 165 kmph blasting to 180 kmph around evening of June 13,” a discharge issued by the MeT office said.

The “extreme” cyclonic tempest, Vayu, moved north-westwards on Thursday in the wake of evading the Saurashtra coast in Gujarat. As indicated by Gujarat Chief Secretary J N Singh, the state government was set up as it had counseled Odisha, which saw Cyclone Fani a month ago. Showing uplifted readiness in front of the plausible landfall of Cyclone Vayu, the Gujarat government cleared in excess of 300,000 individuals from a few areas. Indeed, even as Vayu did not make a landfall in Gujarat on Thursday, it disregarded the Saurashtra area, influencing Amreli, Gir Somnath, Diu, Junagadh, Porbandar, Rajkot, Jamnagar, and Dwarka areas, carrying across the board precipitation with overwhelming to extremely substantial downpours.

The Western Railways dropped 70 trains from the Saurashtra and Kutch area, while 28 trains must be short ended. In any case, uncommon help trains were squeezed into administration for supply of basic items to influenced zones and clearing of individuals.