Cyclone in Mumbai, Cyclone Phyan, Level 6, Indian Meteorological Department, Weather Forecast Mumbai, Goa

The Indian meteorological department has said that the Cyclone named Phyan was about 250 km west of Goa at 2.30 a.m. Thursday morning, it is been issued an “orange” alert. That is one step below the red alert given for a severe cyclone. Reportedly the Cyclone will hit Mumbai tomorrow around 5.30 am morning.

According to Met officials  the cyclone with winds up to 75 kms per hour will hit the Indian states of southern Gujarat, Northern Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa. Watch Live News TV Channel

The Phyan cyclone is said to be  still 400 kms away from Indian state of Goa and it is moving dangerously fast and the next 36 hours are said to pose a large threat to the western coast areas.

Phyan was 420 km south-southwest of Mumbai and 670 km southwest of Surat in south Gujarat.

“The system is likely to intensify further and move north-northeastwards and cross south Gujarat and north Maharashtra coast between Mahuva and Dahanu by early hours of Nov 12,” the IMD website reported. Check out Mumbai Weather Forecast

The weatherman said Wednesday morning that the cyclone will lead to “rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and isolated extremely heavy fall (over or equal to 25 cm) over Konkan and Goa and Madhya Maharashtra during next 36 hours”. Check out Goa Weather Forecast

“Rainfall at many places with heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places is likely over coastal Karnataka during next 24 hours. Rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and isolated extremely heavy falls (over or equal to 25 cm) is likely to commence over south Gujarat from today (Wednesday) afternoon.

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