As Cyclone Montha moves closer to the coast of Andhra Pradesh, it is predicted to strengthen into a powerful cyclonic storm. The cyclone may be forming over the Bay of Bengal.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts that it will land on the evening or night of October 28 close to Kakinada on the Andhra Pradesh coast. In the evening or night of October 28, the IMD predicts that the depression over the Bay of Bengal would strengthen into a cyclone on Monday morning and might move across the Andhra Pradesh coast between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, close to Kakinada, as a severe cyclonic storm.
It is anticipated that Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal would experience heavy to extremely heavy rainfall due to the severe storm. Approximately 380 km west-northwest of Panjim (Goa), 400 km southwest of Mumbai (Maharashtra), 620 km northwest of Mangalore (Karnataka), and 640 km north-northwest of Aminidivi (Lakshadweep) were the locations of the depression that moved north-northwestward over the Eastcentral Arabian Sea on Saturday.
According to reports on Saturday, it is expected to move almost northwestward over the course of the following day and might bring heavy rain to Gujarat, Kerala, Goa, and the Konkan. The IMD bulletin stated that the well-defined low-pressure area over the southeast Bay of Bengal moved almost westward, consolidated into a depression, and was centred approximately 420 km west-southwest of Port Blair (Andaman & Nicobar Islands), 990 km southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 990 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu), 1000 km southeast of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh), and 1040 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha).
Around 450 kilometres from Goa, 430 kilometres from Mumbai, 680 kilometres from Mangalore, and 690 kilometres from Lakshadweep, the depression over the east central Arabian Sea was travelling west-northwest at a speed of 12 kilometres per hour as of October 25, 1130 am IST.
