A storm in the Arabian Sea off India’s west coast intensifies into a severe cyclone, gathering speed as it barrels toward India’s financial capital of Mumbai.
This Tuesday, June 2, 2020, satellite image released by NASA shows Cyclone Nisarga roaring toward the western coast of India. The cyclone is forecast to make landfall Wednesday, June 3, 2020, afternoon on the country's west coast near Mumbai, a coastal city home to 18.4 million people and known for the Bollywood film industry. Mumbai hasn't been hit by a cyclone in more than a century, raising concern about its readiness.
Nisarga was forecast to drop heavy rains and winds gusting up to 120 kilometers per hour when it makes landfall Wednesday afternoon as a category 4 cyclone near the coastal city of Alibagh, about 98 kilometers south of Mumbai, India’s Meteorological Department said. The cyclone also threatened to worsen prospects for an economic turnaround as a 9-week-long government-imposed coronavirus lockdown began to ease this week.
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