Arnab Strikes India
The first named storm of the North Indian Ocean’s cyclone season made landfall along the coast of Andhra Pradesh.
The 2026 North Indian Ocean cyclone season kicked off with the emergence of the first named storm, Arnab, in the Bay of Bengal on October 25. This was a rather late start for a region that usually sees named cyclones forming in April or May. The VIIRS instrument aboard NOAA-20 captured a nighttime image of the storm on October 26 at 20:12 Universal Time (1:42 a.m. India Standard Time on October 27).
At the time, Arnab was spinning with sustained winds of approximately 140 kilometers (85 miles) per hour, according to the Earth Observatory's image of the day.
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