Bhubaneswar, Oct. 26 -- Cyclone Arnab is likely to bring gusty winds of up to 80 kmph to southern Odisha districts on October 28, with rough seas expected along the coast from the previous evening, as the storm intensifies over the Bay of Bengal before crossing the Andhra Pradesh coast, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday.
The cyclonic storm, moving west-northwestwards at 15 kmph, was centred over the east-central and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal, southeast of Gopalpur, in the latest IMD bulletin. It is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by Monday evening and a very severe cyclonic storm on October 27.
The system is forecast to cross the Andhra Pradesh coast between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam, clo...