T he India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its 25th bulletin sent at 2.24 a.m. on Monday (October 27, 2025), said the deep depression over southeast Bay of Bengal and southwest Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm ‘Montha’.

At 11.30 p.m., the storm lay centred 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 a.m., the storm moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 16 kmph during the past 3 hours and lay centred over the same area, 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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