Cyclone Montha -- which will likely intensify into a cyclonic storm by Monday -- is expected to make landfall on the coast of Andhra Pradesh late on Tuesday (October 28), according to weather experts. As the cyclone approaches, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an alert for heavy rainfall in several states and union territories such as Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Puducherry for the coming few days. The landfall is expected to occur on the Andhra coast near Kakinada, between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, on Tuesday evening or night, with wind speeds expected between 90 and 100 kilometers per hour, gusting up to 110 km/hr.

As of Sunday evening, the weather system was located roughly 610 km west of Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands). In response to the

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