Mumbai: A powerful cyclone that threatened Gujarat has changed course and it is now expected to just brush past the coast, authorities said on Thursday, although ports and coastal airports remained shut.
Cyclone Vayu, with wind speeds equivalent to those of a Category 1 hurricane, is moving in a northwesterly direction skirting the Gujarat coast, India’s weather department said.
“The eye of the storm will not enter Gujarat, but still the coast will feel the impact,” said a weather department official.
The cyclone had been expected to hit the Gujarat coast, and officials called for more than 300,000 people to move out of low-lying areas and for airports to suspend operations.
