Tauktae Cyclone
Cyclone storm Tauktae has intensified into a "Very Sever" cyclonic storm, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday morning. Cyclone Tauktae is likely to cross the Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Mahuva (Bhavnagar district) around early morning on May 18.
Cyclone Tauktae is forecast to the west coast of India. Aided with high sea surface tempratures of 30'C and more, the storm will intensity further for the next couple of days. Landfall is forecaste over the Gujarat coast during the early hours of the Tuesday with a wind speed of around 150 kmph. The IMD forecasts that the eye of the storm will cross the coast between Porbandar and Mahuva in the Bhavnagar district.
Western Coastal regions, including Kerala, Karnataka, Maharastra, Goa and Gujarat, will continue to witness spiral rain bands surrounding the storm and produce heavy rains of more than 100mm/day. Even after the storm moving away, southern India will continuously receive more than 20mm of daily rainfall over the next five days due to southwesterly onshore winds.
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