New Delhi, June 02: Tropical cyclone Phet has intensified quickly into a severe cyclonic storm and may hit Gujarat coast in the next 24 hours, met department said on Wednesday.
“The system would intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm and move slowly in a north northwesterly/northerly direction for next 24 hours and then recurve northeastwards towards Gujarat & adjoining Pakistan coast,” IMD said in its latest bulletin.
Squally winds with speed reaching 65-75 kmph, gusting 85 kmph, would commence along and off Gujarat coast within the next 24 hours June and increase gradually.
Under the influence of this system, fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls would commence over coastal areas of Gujarat within the next 48 hours, the weather department has predicted.
Fishermen are advised not venture into the sea as the sea condition will be very high along and off Gujarat coast.
Last month, Cyclone Laila in the Bay of Bengal had claimed over 26 lives in West Bengal.
—-Agencies