The island of Rodriques was placed on Class II alert on Tuesday, November 19. The first strong gusts could occur as early as this afternoon.
Bheki gets closer to Rodriques. The Mauritian island went into class II alert (on a scale of V) this Tuesday, November 19 at 4 a.m. while the tropical cyclone is now less than 500 km from its coasts.
This alert is generally issued 12 hours before the appearance of winds of 120 km/h. The first gusts could therefore be felt from the end of the afternoon today.
The night was calm, only marked by light rain, welcome on this island which is also suffering from drought at the start of the austral summer.
A fairly weak southeast wind, around 45 km/h, accompanied these showers, with a few gusts recorded around 80 km/h.
The wind should gradually strengthen to reach 100 km/h during the day, as will the rain with increasingly heavy showers for the next night, when the cyclone, largely weakened, will pass closer to the coast of the North of the island.
It is still strongly recommended not to venture out to sea, as a strong easterly swell is expected to increase further in the evening.
For the people of Reunion Island, the question that arises is how long flights to Mauritius will be maintained. Yesterday, all nine scheduled flights were scheduled. And this morning, the first of eight flights from Plaisance arrived as planned.
Air Mauritius has made no announcement at this stage, nor has Air Austral, whose weekly flights take place on Wednesdays.
We will have to wait for the next weather updates, in particular that of 4 p.m. local time, to find out more about a possible impact of the weather on air traffic.
