Heavy rains and strong winds lashed parts of Odisha as the very severe cyclonic storm Arnab moved towards the east coast, prompting the IMD to issue orange and yellow warnings across multiple districts. The cyclone is expected to make landfall between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with maximum sustained wind speeds of up to 125 kmph. In response to the looming threat, the Odisha government has deployed NDRF, ODRAF, and fire service personnel to vulnerable locations while closing schools in several southern districts. Authorities have also suspended all boating activities in Chilika Lake to ensure safety as residents move their vessels away from the shore. Furthermore, the weather system is projected to bring unseasonal rainfall and a drop in daytime temperatures to parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh in the coming days.

Heavy rains and strong winds lashed parts of Odisha as the very severe cyclonic storm Arnab moved towards the east coast, prompting the IMD to issue orange and yellow warnings across multiple districts. The cyclone is expected to make landfall between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with maximum sustained wind speeds of up to 125 kmph. In response to the looming threat, the Odisha government has deployed NDRF, ODRAF, and fire service personnel to vulnerable locations while closing schools in several southern districts. Authorities have also suspended all boating activities in Chilika Lake to ensure safety as residents move their vessels away from the shore. Furthermore, the weather system is projected to bring unseasonal rainfall and a drop in daytime temperatures to parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh in the coming days.

Heavy rains and strong winds lashed parts of Odisha as the very severe cyclonic storm Arnab moved towards the east coast, prompting the IMD to issue orange and yellow warnings across multiple districts. The cyclone is expected to make landfall between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with maximum sustained wind speeds of up to 125 kmph. In response to the looming threat, the Odisha government has deployed NDRF, ODRAF, and fire service personnel to vulnerable locations while closing schools in several southern districts. Authorities have also suspended all boating activities in Chilika Lake to ensure safety as residents move their vessels away from the shore. Furthermore, the weather system is projected to bring unseasonal rainfall and a drop in daytime temperatures to parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh in the coming days.

Heavy rains, accompanied by strong winds, lashed parts of Odisha on Tuesday as the very severe cyclonic storm Arnab moved towards the east coast.

The cyclone is expected to make landfall in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in the next 24 hours.

The IMD issued an orange warning, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall of 12-20 cm, for six districts: Puri, Gajapati, Ganjam, Rayagada, Koraput and Malkangiri on Tuesday,

Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Khurda, Nayagarh, Jagatsinghpur, Nuapada, Balangir and Boudh are all under a yellow warning and are set to see rainfall of 7-11 cm.

In its latest bulletin, the IMD said the very severe cyclonic storm Arnab moved at 22 kmph over the previous six hours and was centred at 5.30 am over the Bay of Bengal about 260 km southeast of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

The storm is likely to move west-northwestwards until the evening of October 27, before turning north-westwards and crossing the Andhra Pradesh coast between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam, close to Yanam, by the forenoon of October 28.

The system is expected to make landfall with maximum sustained wind speeds of 115-125 kmph and gusts of up to 140 kmph, the IMD said.

Odisha Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said the state was prepared to deal with the situation, with personnel and equipment deployed at vulnerable locations.

Rescue teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), Fire and Emergency Services, and the police have been prepositioned in vulnerable areas.

Schools in the six southern districts of Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabarangpur have been closed on October 28 and 29.

“With the cyclone approaching, the state government administration has issued a directive that all boats, including tourism boats, operating in Chilika Lake must remain suspended from the 26th to the 29th. People are quite fearful due to the cyclone, which is why they are moving their boats to safer locations,” Kalijai Motor Boat Association Assistant Secretary Pradumana Behera from Odisha said. 

The cyclone is also set to bring unseasonal rainfall in parts of eastern UP: Chitrakoot, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Fatehpur, Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Amethi and Sultanpur, from October 28 to 30.

Heavy rains can be expected on October 30 in Bareilly, Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur, along with several districts of Purvanchal, Awadh, and the Terai region. Daytime temperatures in the region are expected to fall by 5 to 8 degrees.

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