Thereafter, it is likely to move northwest-wards, then north-northwest-wards and intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by the morning of Tuesday, October 28.

xVisakhapatnam :Cyclone Montha – named after a fragrant flower from Thailand – will have its landfall near the Kakinada coast on the evening of Tuesday, October 28, with gale winds of speed 90 kmph–100 kmph gusting to 110 kmph, according to a bulletin issued by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Amaravati, on Saturday.

Providing details, the report said the depression over southeast Bay of Bengal has moved nearly westwards with a speed of 7 kmph during the morning hours on Saturday. It lay centred about 440 km west-southwest of Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), 970 km southeast of Visakhapatnam , 970 km east-south

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