NEW DELHI : Tropical cyclone Nisarga is headed for the Maharashtra coast, and it’s going to make landfall on 3 June close to Mumbai.
After over a week of monitoring, on 31 May, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced its forecast of a storm brewing near the Lakshadweep islands in the Arabian Sea.
A low-pressure area at the time, it has now intensified into a depression, and will further intensify into a cyclonic storm by the morning of 2 June.
Once it does, it will be named Cyclone Nisarga. This will be the first time that a cyclone will make landfall on the Maharashtra coast in June since record-keeping began in 1891.