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."

VSVS Biparjoy over eastcentral Arabian Sea at 0230 hours IST of 11th June, 2023 about 510 km south-southwest of Porbandar. To intensify into an ESCS during next 06 hours. To reach near Pakistan and adjoining Saurashtra & Kutch coasts around afternoon of 15th June, 2023 as a VSCS pic.twitter.com/fE47T9gOna

— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) June 10, 2023

A system is categorized as a Cyclonic Storm when its 3-minute average maximum sustained wind speeds fall between 63-88 km/h. Similarly, a severe cyclonic storm has winds between 89-117 km/h, a very severe cyclonic storm between 118-165 km/h, and an extremely severe cyclonic storm between 166-220 km/h. Wind speeds above 221 km/h give rise to a supercyclone.

In a bulletin, IMD stated, "The very severe cyclonic storm "Biparjoy" (pronounced as "Biporjoy") over east-central Arabian Sea moved nearly northwards with a speed of 5 km/h during past 6-hours and lay centered at 2330 hours IST of 10th June 2023 over the same region near latitude 17.4°N and longitude 67.3°E, about 600 km west-southwest of Mumbai,530 km south-southwest of Porbandar, 580 km south-southwest of Dwarka, 670 km south-southwest of Naliya and 830 km south of Karachi."

(Times Now)