Ahmedabad: In a huge relief for people living near Gujarat's coastal areas, the MeT department today said that ‘Nilofar', earlier dubbed as a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) over west-central Arabian sea, is likely to make a landfall near Naliya in Kutch tomorrow as a ‘depression'.
“As it moved further into the sea during the past six hours, it has weakened and become a ‘severe cyclonic storm' from VSCS. Nilofar is now expected to hit Naliya and other parts of Kutch on October 31 evening with low intensity, which can be called as depression, not as marginal cyclonic storm,” state MeT department official Ajay Kumar said.
As per the latest MeT bulletin, severe cyclonic storm Nilofar has moved east-northeastwards during the past six hours and currently lay centred at about 620 kms west-southwest of Naliya in Kutch.
