The Severe Cyclonic Storm "KYARR" over east-central Arabian Sea moved west-northwestwards with speed of 12 kmph during the past 06 hours, intensified into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm and lay centered at 0530 hrs IST of today about 270 km nearly to the west-southwest of Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), 360 km south-southwest of Mumbai (Maharashtra) and 1780 km east-southeast of Salalah (Oman) which is very likely to further intensify into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm during next 24 hours As per yesterday’s report, most places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Konkan & Goa, and Coastal & South Interior Karnataka lashed with heavy rainfall along with thunderstorm.