Bhubaneswar: Cyclonic Storm “Montha” has formed over southwest & adjoining areas of westcentral and southeast Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Monday.

At 5.30 am, the storm was about 560 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu), 620 km south-southeast of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh), 650 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 790 km south of Gopalpur (Odisha) and 810 km west of Port Blair (Andaman & Nicobar Islands). ADVERTISEMENT

It is likely to continue to move northwestwards over southwest & adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal during the next 12 hours, then north-northwestwards and intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by morning of October 28.

The weather agency further added that, continuing to move further north-northwestwards, it

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