Cyclone Kyarr weather forecast today: Deep depression in Arabian sea intensifies into cyclonic storm
Mangalore Today News Network
October 25 2019: The India Meteorological Department Friday said that the Deep Depression over east-central Arabian Sea intensified into a cyclonic storm ’Kyarr’ and lay centered about 240 km west-southwest of Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. The weather agency forecast that the storm is "very likely" to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm during the next 24 hours and later into a ’very severe’ cyclonic storm during the subsequent 12 hours.
"Under the influence of the above systems, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy falls likely over Konkan & Goa and Coastal Karnataka during the next 24 hours," the latest bulletin issued by IMD said. It also forecasts heavy rainfall in Odisha, Assam and Meghalaya in the next 24 hours.
Earlier, the MeT department had issued a red alert along the coast of Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka for the next two days. "The storm is very likely to move east-northeast-wards till the evening of October 25 (today). Then it is very likely to recurve and move nearly westwards towards south Oman and adjoining Yemen coast with gradual intensification during subsequent 72 hours," the department had said earlier.
The Karnataka State Natural Calamity Monitoring Centre has also asked the public to be cautious, while fishermen have been warned against venturing into the sea.
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