Tropical Cyclone Phet was bearing down on the coast of Oman on Thursday, threatening to bring torrential rain and hurricane force winds to the Arabian Peninsula sultanate.
The forecast on stormtracker.com has Phet making a sweeping turn to the northeast, with the center of the storm just brushing the Omani coast near Al Ashkhirah on Friday before it heads across the Arabian Sea toward Pakistan at the weekend.
Pakistan’s GEO TV reported that Phet is expected to pass near heavily-populated Karachi and with heavy rains and strong winds, though the brush with Oman will reduce the storm from Category 4 to Category 1 strength before it hits the Pakistan coast.
