On Tuesday morning, the Cyclone Tauktae lay centered over Saurashtra, Gujarat. Take a glance at the disruption caused by the cyclone in several areas
Cyclone Tauktae, the most important to hit the region in decades, made landfall in Gujarat at around 8.30 pm on Monday, packing winds with speeds of 155-165 kilometres per hour, gusting to 190 km/hour. After the landfall ended around midnight, the weather office downgraded the storm from 'extremely severe' to 'very severe'. It later said during a tweet that the cyclone was weakening further.
In a relief to the people, the IMD, in its tweet after midnight, also announced that Cyclone Tauktae has weakened into a "very severe cyclonic storm" from the "extremely severe cyclonic storm".
"The entire eye of the cyclone has now crossed the coast and lies over land. The rear sector of the attention is now entering the land" the IMD tweeted.
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Meanwhile, flight operations at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, halted for hours thanks to the cyclone, are resumed. The cyclone triggered strong winds with the highest-ever speed of 114 kilometres per hour in Mumbai.
At least six people were killed and a number of other injured in Maharashtra as Cyclone Tauktae brushed past the state while eight people died in cyclone-affected coastal Karnataka.
The NDRF on Monday said it's evacuated thousands of stranded people within the last three days in Gujarat, Kerala and Daman and Diu in sight of Cyclone Tauktae.
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