Cyclone Arnab To Hit AP Coast On Wednesday
Cyclone Arnab is forecast to cross the Andhra Pradesh coast on Wednesday with winds of up to 125 kmph, prompting red alerts for several districts.
Cyclone Arnab that lay over west-central Bay of Bengal may intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm before crossing the Andhra Pradesh coast with a wind speed of 115-125kmph by forenoon on Wednesday and cause devastation in parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh.
The IMD said the cyclonic storm over west central and adjoining east central Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 13kmph in the past six hours and lay centered 520km southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha), 540km east-southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 620km east-southeast of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh),720km east-southeast
of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 790km east-southeast of Bapatla (Andhra Pradesh) and 680km northwest of Sri Vijaya Puram (Andaman Islands).
Moving towards the mainland, the system is forecast to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday, Oct 27, before crossing the Andhra Pradesh-Yanam coasts between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam with sustained wind speeds of 115–125 kmph, gusting up to 140 kmph by forenoon of Wednesday, October 28, IMD said.
IMD has issued different levels of rainfall warnings for coastal districts in Andhra Pradesh, depending on the expected intensity of the rainfall. A red warning for extremely heavy rainfall has been issued for Anakapalle, Kakinada, Konaseema, East Godavari, West Godavari and Eluru districts and Yanam for Tuesday.
An orange warning for heavy to very heavy rainfall has been issued for Srikakulam, Parvathipuram Manyam, Vizianagaram, Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR), Visakhapatnam, NTR, Krishna, Guntur and Bapatla districts for Tuesday. Similarly, a yellow warning of heavy rainfall was issued for Palnadu, Prakasam and Nellore districts.
For Wednesday, IMD issued a red alert for the Visakhapatnam, Alluri Sitharama Raju, Anakapalle, Kakinada, Konaseema, East Godavari, West Godavari, Eluru, NTR, Krishna and Guntur districts. An orange alert is issued for Srikakulam, Parvathipuram Manyam, Vizianagaram and Bapatla districts of coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam and a yellow alert for Palnadu, Prakasam and Nellore districts.
