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Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Biparjoy’ to batter Gujarat as high-waves warning issued for entire west coast

Waves rising as high as 9.2 metres, gale force winds which can touch upto 160 kmph, storm surges of upto three metres, and heavy rainfall have been forecast across regions of Gujarat, including Kutch, Devbhumi Dwarka, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Junagarh and Morbi districts, in a joint bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and India National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) on Tuesday afternoon (June 13).

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The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Biparjoy’ has moved further north-northwestwards at 12 kmph over the past six hours, lying around 280 km southwest of Devbhumi Dwarka.

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