Because of the warnings issued about Cyclone Montha fashioned within the Bay of Bengal, the Coastal Marine employees together with the native station police evacuated the guests from the seashore at Kothapatnam seashore close to in Prakasam. district on October 26, 2025 | Photograph Credit score: KOMMURI SRINIVAS
The India Meteorological Division (IMD), in its twenty fifth bulletin despatched at 2.24 am on Monday (October 27, 2025), stated the deep melancholy over southeast Bay of Bengal and southwest Bay of Bengal intensified right into a cyclonic storm ‘Montha’.
At 11.30 pm, the storm lay centered over southwest and southeast Bay of Bengal, about 640 km east-southeast of Chennai, 710 km southeast of Kakinada, 740 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam and 860 km south of Gopalpur (Odisha). At 2.30 am, the storm moved west-northwestwards with a pace of 16 kmph throughout the previous 3 hours and lay centered over the identical space, which is about 600 km east-southeast of Chennai, 680 km south-southeast of Kakinada, 710 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam, 790 km west of Port Blair and 850 km south of Gopalpur in Odisha.
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The IMD has issued crimson and orange alerts for 23 of the 26 districts in Andhra Pradesh for Monday (October 27) in view of the cyclonic storm ‘Montha’. The districts the place a crimson alert has been sounded are: SPSR Nellore, Prakasam, Bapatla, Krishna, West Godavari, Dr. BR Ambedkar Konaseema and Kakinada. Aside from the three districts of Anantapur, Kurnool and Sri Sathya Sai, the remaining districts have been issued orange alerts as ‘heavy to very heavy rainfall’ is probably going on Monday (October 27). There’s a risk of extraordinarily heavy rainfall within the districts the place a crimson alert has been given.
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