KARACHI – A Cyclone has been formed off coast Karachi, Pakistani fishermenwarned against deep sea fishing because of the deep depression cyclone.
As per media report, a deep depression in the east-central and adjacentnortheast Arabian Sea has transformed into a cyclone. Pakistan MetDepartment’s Tropical Cyclone Warning Center announced yesterday that thelow-pressure area over the East-central and Northeast Arabian Sea hadstrengthened into a depression and was concentrated about 610 km Southeastof Karachi, at Latitude 19.8°N and longitude 69.4°E.
According to the Met department’s predictions, the cyclone will not touchany of Pakistan’s coastal areas and will move westward to Oman’s coast.Fishermen in Sindh have been warned to not to go into deep sea for the nextseveral days.
The cyclone has been named Hikka by the Maldives.
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The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), in a weather update, saidthat Karachi and southern parts of Sindh would experience a slight heatwave till Tuesday. The maximum temperature is expected to reach 37 – 39ºC.
