Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (SR)

Panaji, Oct 26: India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials on Friday said Goa and coastal Karnataka will be receiving heavy rain with ‘severe cyclonic storm’ in the next 12 to 36 hours as cyclonic storm ‘Kyarr’ intensifies in these areas.

On Saturday morning the weather department tweeted, "Severe cyclonic storm 'Kyarr' lay centered at 11.30 pm, yesterday, about 200 km to the west of Ratnagiri and 310 km south-southwest of Mumbai. It is very likely to move west-northwest toward the coast of Oman during the next five days."

Goa chief minister, Pramod Sawant said that the state has already taken all measures to face the storm with its disaster management teams on standby.

As per ANI report, the weather officials said, "The speed of gale wind reaching 90-100 km/per hour, gusting to 110 km/ per hour is prevailing around the system centre over the East-central Arabian Sea. It is very likely to reach 100-110 km/per hour and 120-130 km/per hour gusting to 145 km/per hour by October 26."