Cyclone Tauktae overtook Mumbai in the past few hours, where the Indian Meteorological Department had raised the alert from green to orange, hitting the neighborhoods closest to the coast with torrential rainfall, floods and blackouts lasting several hours in numerous areas of the city.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport has been closed for at least three hours.
Tauktae, the first monsoon of the season 2021, is moving in a north-northeast direction and will reach the coast of Gujarat today evening, where 150 thousand people have already been evacuated by the Civil Protection.
Over the weekend, passing over Goa and the southern coast of Maharashtra, the cyclone caused at least eight victims.