Cyclone Mekunu Intensifies As It Advances On Oman
Anees Ahmed (@Aneesah05582539) Published May 25, 2018 | 01:40 PM
Oman said Friday that Cyclone Mekunu, which has wreaked havoc in the Yemeni island of Socotra, has intensified into category 2 as it approaches the southern part of the sultanate.
Muscat, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th May, 2018 ) :Oman said Friday that Cyclone Mekunu, which has wreaked havoc in the Yemeni island of Socotra, has intensified into category 2 as it approaches the southern part of the sultanate.
"Latest observations show that tropical cyclone Mekunu has intensified to category 2," with high wind speeds, Oman's Directorate General of Meteorology said on Twitter.
The Gulf state's early warning centre said that the eye of the cyclone was just 180 kilometres (112 miles) away from Salalah, the main city in Dhofar province.
It expected that Mekunu will make landfall in the early hours of the afternoon. Several cities in Dhofar were lashed by heavy rain in the early hours of Friday as the centre of the cyclone approached the coast, it added in a statement carried by the official Oman news agency. Oman on Thursday placed police and army on alert and closed schools until Monday in preparation for the cyclone.
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