As #CycloneNisarg steadily climbed the Twitter trends on Wednesday and reached the #2 position by 3.30 pm — by which time howling winds and lashing rain had hit the island city hard — Mumbaikars and Twitterati reacted with funny memes, witty one-liners, and empathetic appeals on social media.

Since the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and Press Information Bureau of Maharashtra were regularly putting out updates about the movement of Cyclone Nisarga and warnings on various social media handles. However, there was also a whole range of memes in the #CycloneNisarg category.