New York (Platts)--6Jun2007

Tropical Cyclone Gonu continued to weaken late Wednesday as it maintained
its progress northward to the southern Iranian coast near the Strait of
Hormuz, the US Department of Defense's Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported.

     In its latest update, the warning center said Gonu was located about 70
nautical miles north of Muscat, Oman, moving at the rate of about 10 knots per
hour (11.5 miles mph) over a six-hour period. Waves were reported at a maximum
23 feet. Gonu had maximum sustained winds of 45 knots, or about 51.8 mph, with
gusts up to 55 knots, or about 63.4 mph.

     The update said the storm, "continues to weaken due to land interaction
and increasing vertical wind shear," and noted that it is "dissipating as a
significant tropical cyclone over land."

     Gonu was tracking toward the southern coast of Iran "along the
southwestern periphery of a steering ridge anchored over southwestern
Pakistan," a direction it said was expected to continue.

     The warning center said Gonu "will continue to weaken in an increasingly
hostile upper level environment and dissipate below tropical cyclone intensity
over land after making landfall" later this week.

		--Robert DiNardo, robert_dinardo@platts.com