India’s weather department has forecast extremely heavy rain on Wednesday for the coastal states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal with wind gusts of up to 90 kmph. The cyclone is expected to weaken to a deep depression later in the day.
BHUBANESWAR: One person was killed on India’s eastern coast after Cyclone Montha made landfall around midnight, with heavy rain and gusty winds also damaging crops and utility poles, officials said on Wednesday.
“Montha weakened into a Cyclonic Storm and lay centered at 0230 hrs IST of today, the 29th October 2025, near latitude 16.5°N & longitude 81.5°E, about 20 km west-northwest of Narsapur (Andhra Pradesh), 50 km northeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 90 km west-southwest of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh), 230 km southwest of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 470 km southwest of Gopalpur (Odisha),” the IMD said.
India’s weather department has forecast extremely heavy rain on Wednesday for the coastal states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal with wind gusts of up to 90 kmph. The cyclone is expected to weaken to a deep depression later in the day.
A 48-year-old woman was killed in Andhra Pradesh’s Konaseema district after a palm tree fell on her, local officials said.
As of Tuesday night, the government has reported damage to more than 38,000 hectares of crops, several power lines and utility poles in Andhra Pradesh.
Indian Railways cancelled, diverted and rescheduled multiple coaching trains across the Waltair Division of East Coast Railway Zone on Tuesday. Similarly, the South Central Railway (SCR) Zone cancelled 120 trains in total on Monday and Tuesday, said an official.
All 32 flight operating out of Visakhapatnam Airport were cancelled on Tuesday owing to the severe cyclonic storm Montha. Likewise, the Vijayawada Airport cancelled 16 flights, but managed to operate five flights.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said 3,778 villages were forecast to receive heavy rains.
Efforts were underway to restore power in areas where there had been outages.
Video from ANI, in which Reuters has a minority stake, showed rescue personnel in the state clearing away uprooted trees and cleaning roads as rain continued to fall.
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