Cyclone Nisarga has made landfall near Mumbai with wind gusts up to 75 mph. It's the first time a cyclone has hit the area, which was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, in more than a century.
Commuters drive along Marine Drive amid heavy rainfall in Mumbai on Wednesday as cyclone Nisarga neared landfall on India's west coast.Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images
Commuters drive along Marine Drive amid heavy rainfall in Mumbai on Wednesday as cyclone Nisarga neared landfall on India's west coast.India's megacity of Mumbai is in the crosshairs of a tropical cyclone for the first time in well over a century, as a storm called Nisarga came ashore Wednesday in an area of the country already hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Severe Cyclonic Storm Nisarga was spinning wind gusts up to 75 mph as it made landfall south of Mumbai, which was experiencing heavy rainfall, according to theAbout 100,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located, and neighboring Gujarat. The two states account for about 40% of the country's more than 207,000 confirmed coronavirus cases.
"We have seen rains, but we have never seen a cyclone in the city," Shantaram Terekar, who lives in a one-room hut in the city, told the news agency."We don't know what damage it will do." India's largest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, said it had shut for 24 hours, and most flights were cancelled at the city's airport according to Reuters, where operations were already curtailed because of the pandemic.
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