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Storm brewing over Arabia Sea

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 MUMBAI: The depression over southeast and adjoining central Arabian Sea moved northwestwards on Tuesday, intensifying into a deep depression which is likely to develop further into a cyclonic storm and hit Gujarat. India Met office advised fishermen not to venture into the sea along and off Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts. Squally winds speed reaching 55-65 kmph, gusting to 75 kmph, are likely to commence along and off south Gujarat and Kerala coasts besides Lakshadweep from tomorrow afternoon, while it will hit Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra coasts during the next 48 hours, it said. The deep depression lay centred at 0830 hour on Tuesday over east central Arabian Sea near latitude 13.0 degree North and longitude 70.5 deg East, about 470 km west of Mangalore, 470 km southwest of Goa and 700 km south-southwest of Mumbai, the Colaba Weather Bureau said. "The system is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm and move in a northerly direction for some time and then north-northeastwards and cross south Gujarat and North Konkan between Mahuva and Dahanu by early hours of November 12," deputy director general of India meteorological department R V Sharma said.Pakistan’s Met Department said the coastline of Pakistan is not going to be affected even though the storm gathered tremendous force over last hours.

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