Nisarga moving to north Maha coast at 11 kmph

June 03, 2020 07:18

Lifeguards on the alert at Juhu beach, Mumbai. Photograph: Ashish Vaishnav / ANI Photo.

Cyclone Nisarga is approaching the coast of north Maharashtra with a speed of 11 kilometres per hour, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday.

"Cyclone Nisarga is approaching north Maharashtra coast with a speed of 11 kmph. It is about 200 km south-south-west of Alibaug and about 250 km south-south-west of Mumbai at 02.30 am IST of June 3," according to a tweet by the IMD.

The weather forecast agency further said that at 4.30 am the wind speed had increased to 22 kmph at Santacruz in Mumbai.

It has also predicted that light to moderate rainfall will take place at most places with isolated heavy falls very likely over coastal Karnataka and Marathwada during the next six hours. Extremely heavy rainfall (above 20 centimetres in 24 hours) is also likely at isolated places over north Konkan (Mumbai, Palghar, Thane, Raigad districts) and north Madhya Maharashtra today.

"After the landfall, the severe cyclonic storm is very likely to maintain its cyclonic storm intensity for about 6 hours while moving north-north-eastwards across north Madhya Maharashtra. Under its influence gale wind reaching 60-70 kmph gusting to 80 kmph very likely to prevail over Pune, Ahmednagar and 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph in adjoining Beed, Nashik and Aurangabad districts of Maharashtra," it said in a bulletin.

Earlier, the IMD had stated that the severe cyclonic storm is expected to impact the Maharashtra coast by the afternoon/evening of June 3.

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