Bhubaneswar, June 2 -- New Delhi: The deep depression in the Arabian Sea strengthened into a cyclonic storm 'Nisarga' on Tuesday morning and will make landfall close to Alibag, 94 kms south of Mumbai on the afternoon of June 3. It will make landfall as a 'severe cyclonic storm' with a wind speed of 100-110 kmh gusting to 120 kmh. As the storm brewing in the Arabian Sea intensified into a tropical cyclone, many experts believe its landfall would be a rare-of-the-rarest event on the Maharashtra coastline.

The cyclonic storm is currently located 280 km west-southwest of Panjim (Goa), 430km south-southwest of Mumbai (Maharashtra) and 640 km south-southwest of Surat (Gujarat).

Dr Sunita Devi, India Meteorological Department's in-charge of cy...