On the Indian side, the cyclone is located about 320 km south-southeast of Karaikal, 430 km south-southeast of Puducherry, and 530 km south of Chennai.
The IMD said the storm, with strong winds and the potential for hefty rainfall, is expected to reach the southwest coasts of the Bay of Bengal by early morning on 30 November.
The category-3 storm was categorised as a 'severe tropical cyclone' by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The destructive winds have already destroyed severals buildings in the region.
Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi in a post on X said, 'It’s heartbreaking to see our farmers, who worked tirelessly for months, lose their entire crop overnight.'
Earlier this month, a blizzard stranded hundreds of trekkers near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummelled the Himalayas.
Several coastal districts in Andhra Pradesh and southern Odisha, towards which the cyclone is expected to move after landfall, have already experienced heavy rainfall this morning.
The system, currently located about 990 km southeast of Kakinada, is expected to cross the coast between Machilipatnam & Kakinada on the evening or night of 28 October.
Operations at Chennai airport resumed past midnight Saturday but as many as 24 domestic services were cancelled and 26 international flights were delayed.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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