2021-05-17 06:35:57 GMT2021-05-17 14:35:57(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NEW DELHI, May 17 (Xinhua) Cyclonic storm Tauktae Monday intensified into an extremely severe storm and is likely to hit India s Gujarat coast by the evening, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Tauktae intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm and lay centered at 5:30 a.m. local time on Monday over east-central Arabian Sea, about 160 km west-southwest of Mumbai, the federal ministry of earth science quoting the IMD said.
It said the cyclone is very likely to reach Gujarat coast in the evening and cross the area between Porbandar and Mahuva in Bhavnagar district during the night as a very severe cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed 155-165 kmph gusting to 185 kmph.
#CycloneTauktae will hit Indian coasts soon. Do you know what it s name means. ‘Tauktae (pronounced as Tau Te), a name given by #Myanmar, means highly vocal lizard #GECKO.
The cyclone names are given by countries on rotation basis in region.@mcbbsrpic.twitter.com/AakbZva8gr Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) May 15, 2021
The name was chosen by the World Meteorological Organisation/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (WMO/ESCAP) Panel on Tropical Cyclones (PTC). The panel includes 13 countries, namely India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Maldives, Oman, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, which choose the names of the cyclones in the region.
: Monday, May 17, 2021, 11:55 PM IST
Cyclone Tauktae: 214.6 mm and 202.6 mm of rain recorded at Mumbai observatories; wind speed of 114 kmph at Colaba; six killed in Konkan
A man rides a motorcycle through a waterlogged street amidst heavy rains in Mumbai on May 17, 2021, as Cyclone Tauktae, packing ferocious winds and threatening a destructive storm, surge bore down on India, disrupting the countrys response to its devastating Covid-19 outbreak.
(Photo by AFP)
Mumbai: The cyclonic storm Tauktae finally made landfall near Jafarabad in the Amreli district of Gujarat around 9.45 pm on Monday, but not before wreaking havoc in Mumbai and the adjoining areas. As many as 26 incidents of house/ wall collapse and 479 incidents of trees being uprooted/branches falling were reported from across the city.