A low pressure that had developed over the south Arabian Sea a few days ago would turn into a ‘depression’ and then into a storm in the next 24 hours, said a cyclone alert issued by the Met Office on Saturday.
However, the alert said, none of Pakistan’s coastal areas was presently under direct threat as the depression was likely to move either towards the coast of Oman or Yemen in the coming days.   Â
The low pressure was presently 1,830 kilometers southwest of Karachi and 1,760 kilometers south of Gwadar, the weather department said.
The cyclone has been named ‘Tej’ by India which means fast.
The storm has been presently at a distance of 960km in the southeast of Oman and will likely get further intensity by this evening, PMD Chief Meteorologist Sardar Sarfaraz said.
The system was earlier located at a distance of about 1810km southwest of Karachi and 1750km south of Gwadar. This would be the second cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea this year.
Meteorologists caution that at times, storms may deviate from the predicted route and intensity, as seen in the case of earlier Cyclone Biparjoy, which formed in the Arabian Sea in June and initially moved in a north-northwest direction before changing course to make landfall between Sindh and Gujarat coast in Pakistan and India.
According to reports, most weather models indicate the storm is heading for the Yemen-Oman coast.
