Days after Arnab, Andhra Pradesh braces for another cyclone

Less than a week after the severe cyclone Arnab caused devastation along Andhra Pradesh's coast, the state must prepare for another cyclone. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that a cyclone would form in the southeast Bay of Bengal and make landfall between Nellore and Narsapur early on November 3. On Saturday, a clearly marked low pressure area emerged in the southeast Bay of Bengal, near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Andaman Sea.

It later grew into a depression and moved west-northwestward. The system is expected to further strengthen into a deep depression overnight on Sunday. The IMD added that the storm will intensify further into a cyclonic storm over southeast and west-central Bay of Bengal on Sunday, and reach near the Andhra Pradesh coast around the evening of November 2.