Cyclone Biparjoy To Become Extremely Severe Storm Today

New Delhi, June 11: Very severe cyclonic storm (VSCS) ‘Biparjoy’ will intensify into an extremely severe cyclonic storm within the next six hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. The VSCS ‘Biparjoy’, located over the east-central Arabian Sea, is likely to move nearly northwards and reach Pakistan and adjoining Saurashtra and Kutch coasts on Thursday.

IMD tweeted, "VSCS BIPARJOY lay centered at 2330IST of today, near lat 17.4N and long 67.3E, about 600 km WSW of Mumbai, 530 km S-SW of Porbandar & 830 km S of Karachi. To intensify further and likely to reach near Pakistan & adjoining Saurashtra & Kutch coast around A/N of 15th June as VSCS."