Vasava told Indian Express.Īccording to ANI, an official from Gujarat said, “We told the fishermen not to venture into the sea and they all have come back. If needed, they were told, they will have to be shifted to safer places,” Surat’s Collector B.K. The SDRF (State Disaster Response Force) teams have been kept on standby mode while people of the coastal village had been alerted.

Presently, we are on alert mode and all officials were advised not to leave the headquarter. “It may reach South Gujarat on Sunday or Monday. Fishermen have been asked to return to the coast from deep sea areas, and ports were instructed to hoist the Distant Warning signal (DW II). Likely to intensify further & move north-northeastwards during the next 24hrs,” IMD said in a tweet.Īccording to the meteorological department, the cyclone is centered about 640 kilometers south-southwest of Gujarat’s coastal Porbandar district. “Very severe cyclonic storm Biparjoy at 2330 hrs IST of 9th June over east-central Arabian Sea near lat 16.0N & long 67.4E. A yellow alert has been issued for eight districts of Kerala. A high alert has been sounded in Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra. The fishermen in Gujarat, Kerala, and Lakshadweep have also been advised not to venture into the seas.

New Delhi: A “very severe” cyclonic storm Biparjoy is expected to intensify further in the next 24 hours and will move north-northeastwards bringing heavy rain and strong winds in coastal areas of Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.

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