Tauktae intensifies to ‘Very Severe Cyclone’, to cross near Porbandar on May 18

Sunday, 16 May 2021Newsdesk

Cyclone Taukate has obtained its maximum intensity in the wee hours of Sunday and has now become a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (wind speed of 118 to 166 km / hr).

New Delhi, 16 May 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, the latest cyclone alert issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that this storm would reach close to Gujarat coast by Monday evening. It will cross as a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm between Porbandar and Mahuva in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat sometime during the morning hours of May 18. Presently, cyclone Tauktae lay over the east-central Arabian Sea about 130kms west-southwest of Panjim, Goa, 450kms south of Mumbai and 700 kms south-southeast of Veraval, Gujarat and 840kms southeast of Karachi, Pakistan.

Source -The Hindu