, Nov. 2 -- Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu over the west-central Bay of Bengal and adjoining southwest Bay moved northwestwards .

The storm is likely to move further northwestwards and cross the Andhra Pradesh coast of India by tonight as a Severe Cyclonic Storm, the BMD said in a special bulletin issued on Monday morning.

It was centred near latitude 14.0degN and longitude 81.8degE at 6am on Monday, it said.

At the time, the storm was about 1,440 km southwest of Chattogram, 1,400 km southwest of Cox's Bazar, 1,275 km southwest of Mongla and 1,295 km southwest of Payra port, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).

The maximum sustained wind speed within 64 km of the storm's centre is about 89 kmph, rising to 117 kmp...