PHET June 2010

5 June 2010
Tropical Cyclone Phet today lost its cetral eye in the spiral of the satellite view, indicating that the storm had weakened after making landfall in Oman.
In Oman on June 3 and 4th , it caused landslides and floods in the eastern part of the country, in Sur. A town in Quariat lying in a mountain gorge was flooded and people from 200 homes were evacuated. After touching the edge of the Oman mountains, Phet weakened with warm air from the land and continued in a northeasterly direction up Oman's coast and back into the Arabian Sea. It is moving towards Pakistan as a tropical depression which will result in heavy rains.
3/6/2010
Oman state television said the government had ordered police and the air force to evacuate people from areas of eastern Oman, where waves were 8 metres (26 feet) high.
Evacuated people from Masirah island.
Phet was likely to hit Masirah as a Category 3 cyclone but would weaken to Category 2 before hitting Oman's mainland near SUR and the LNG terminals. The 3 LNG production trains, are in Sur in the east, close to the path of the storm.
The major hurricane is developing in the Arabian Sea is called Tropical Cyclone Phet which with rapid intensification may become a Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds.

Phet is a Thai word pronounced as Pet, meaning Diamond. Who ever names cyclones has a cutting edge sense of humour!
This is one of the largest hurricanes in the Arabian Sea on record, and may be a Phet/ diamond amongst storms.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) predicts Phet to become a Category 5 storm later today.
The storm is moving towards Oman and it will likely make landfall in Oman near SUR before recurving to the northeast and hitting Pakistan . The coastal region of Oman is likely to get hit . It will spread heavy rains over the heavily populated regions of Oman like Muscat, and will likely cause extreme flooding. Phet may be worse for Oman than Tropical Cyclone Gonu, which did $4.2 billion in damage and killed 50 people in June 2007.

On its way to pakistan on 5 June : flash floods are likely in Balochistan while strong winds would lash in Karachi. People are being evacuated from the coastal areas to safety on Thursday in Pakistan. Rain is likely to flood the 15 million people in metropolis Karachi, with its clogged drainage systems.