Cyclone Biparjoy: no power in 1000 villages, 2 dead 22 injured

Roofs have been blown off houses and trees and electric poles uprooted, leaving thousands without power as a severe cyclone makes landfall and heavy rains lash both the Indian and Pakistani coasts. Cyclone Biparjoy: no power in 1000 villages, 2 dead 22 injured.

At least two people died in India’s western state of Gujarat after being swept away by floods just before the cyclone hit, officials said on Friday. Two people died and 22 were injured as cyclonic storm Biparjoy wreaked havoc in Gujarat on Thursday, uprooting trees, and damaging several vehicles and houses.

The cyclone is likely to weaken into a depression this evening over Rajasthan. The longest cyclone to have struck the Arabian Sea, Biparjoy knocked out power in nearly 1000 villages and threw shipping containers into the sea in western India before moving to Pakistan where lashing winds and rain are expected to strike a part struck by devastating floods last year.

The storm made landfall a night earlier, packing windspeeds of 85 kph (53 mph), gusting up to 105 kph (86 mph) through the coastal regions of western India’s Gujarat state. Pakistani authorities were on high alert after evacuating 82,000 people.

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The eye of the cyclone, which was churning across the Arabian Sea for more than 10 days, was located around 20km southwest of Jakhau port, 120km northwest of Devbhumi Dwarka and 50 km west-southwest of Naliya. Recent studies show cyclones in the Arabian Sea are getting stronger and wetter as the sea surface temperature increased by 1.2C to 1.4C in recent decades.

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The intensity of Cyclone Biparjoy has reduced from ‘very severe’ category to ‘severe’ after the storm made landfall in coastal areas of Gujarat on Thursday evening, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The weather department said that the cyclone has now moved from sea to land and is centred towards Sauarashtra-Kutch, adding that heavy rains are expected in Rajasthan today.

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According to the latest weather bulletin from the India Meteorological Department, it will weaken gradually into a cyclonic storm over Saurashtra and Kutch around noon and subsequently into a deep depression around evening. The Relief Commissioner informed that 22 people got injured, while electric poles, and trees were uprooted amid severe heavy rains coupled with gusty winds.