Cyclone formed off coast Karachi, Pakistani fishermen warned against deep sea fishing
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KARACHI - A Cyclone has been formed off coast Karachi, Pakistani fishermen warned against deep sea fishing because of the deep depression cyclone.
As per media report, a deep depression in the east-central and adjacent northeast Arabian Sea has transformed into a cyclone. Pakistan Met Department’s Tropical Cyclone Warning Center announced yesterday that the low-pressure area over the East-central and Northeast Arabian Sea had strengthened into a depression and was concentrated about 610 km Southeast of Karachi, at Latitude 19.8°N and longitude 69.4°E.
According to the Met department’s predictions, the cyclone will not touch any 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 next several days.
The cyclone has been named Hikka by the Maldives.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), in a weather update, said that Karachi and southern parts of Sindh would experience a slight heat wave till Tuesday. The maximum temperature is expected to reach 37 – 39ºC.
