KARACHI: The Arabian sea tropical cyclone Ashobaa is just 540 kilometres away from Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi, Met office sources say.
According to reports, the cyclone currently lies some 540 kilometres south of Karachi in the Sea and is heading towards the Persian Gulf,
Director of the Pakistan Meteorological Department’s Karachi-based Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre Qayyoom Bhutto said that some coastal areas of the country were expected to get rain/thundershowers till Friday.
He said the tropical cyclone Ashobaa had slightly tracked further north-westwards on Tuesday evening. It was moving at a speed of around 10 kilometres per hour and its current location was Lat 20.5N and Long 64.5E, about 540km south-southwest of Karachi and some 600km of east-southwest of Muscat (Oman) that was expected to suffer the harsh effects of the cyclone in the next couple of days.
The tropical cyclone is likely to intensify further and keep moving north-westward in the next 24 hours.
Keeping in view the rough sea, owing to the cyclonic activity, he advised the fishermen not to venture in the open sea till Friday.
