Original sentence: However the turn turned out to be more to the north than anticipated as a result this enabled the cyclone to stay offshore for longer and rapidly intensify becoming a Very severe Cyclonic Storm early on May 6
Edited sentence: However the turn turned out to be more to the north than anticipated as a result this enabled the cyclone to stay offshore for longer and rapidly intensify becoming a Very severe Cyclonic Storm early on May 6 as it had winds that were equivilant to a typhoon