Cyclone Mocha has intensified into a “very severe” cyclonic storm today over the southeast and adjoining areas of the central Bay of Bengal. 

“The SCS “Mocha” intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm, lay centred at 05:30 hours IST of 12th May 2023 over central adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal near latitude 13.2N and long 88.1E, about 520 km west-northwest of Port Blair,” the IMD said.