Cyclone Vayu has dissipated earlier than anticipated and will not make a landfall over Gujarat, a senior weather department official confirmed to The Hindu.
‘Vayu’ was expected to make landfall by midnight Monday, according to an India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) assessment late Sunday.
“It has already become a ‘depression’ and by midnight will cross over the Gujarat coast as a ‘well marked low,’ said Madhavan Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences. While this would still bring rains and winds — and fishermen have been warned to stay away — it effectively means that ‘Vayu’ no longer poses a threat to Gujarat.