Cyclone Murasu makes landfall on India’s east coast
The storm flooded low-lying areas and brought down trees and electricity poles in Andhra Pradesh. The state’s disaster authority said no deaths or injuries had been reported.
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The storm flooded low-lying areas and brought down trees and electricity poles in Andhra Pradesh. The state’s disaster authority said no deaths or injuries had been reported.
Cyclone Murasu came ashore as a severe cyclonic storm near Ongole in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district at about 01:00 Indian Standard Time on 3 November (23:30 2 November Yerevan time), the India Meteorological Department said. The storm flooded low-lying areas and brought down trees and electricity poles.
It struck days after Cyclone Arnab hit the same coastline on 28 October, killing 6 people and destroying dozens of homes and crops.
No deaths or injuries had been reported from Murasu as of 3 November, Prakhar Jain, managing director of the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority, told Reuters. Al Jazeera also cited Press Trust of India’s account of extensive damage in Prakasam and Bapatla districts: thousands of trees were felled, hundreds of power poles damaged and fishing boats wrecked. Standing crops were hit and many areas were underwater.
Authorities had evacuated about 2,000 people by 2 November and planned to move about 30,000 in total, Jain said.
Before landfall, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed officials to prepare and said estimates suggested 6,000–8,000 electricity poles could be damaged, threatening power supplies. Jain said 6 National Disaster Response Force teams and 7 State Disaster Response Force teams had been deployed in advance. Schools had also closed in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Odisha.
Before landfall, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan warned on X of severe impacts in Nellore, Prakasam, Bapatla and Krishna districts. Nellore district Collector Himanshu Shukla urged fishermen not to go to sea and ordered coastal officials to remain at their posts.
The meteorological department warned of heavy to very heavy rain across several districts through 3 November. Earlier, ETV Bharat said rain was expected to continue in parts of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and Chhattisgarh through 4 November, even as the storm weakened.
Before landfall, Weathernews forecast that Murasu would weaken to a cyclonic storm by 05:30 Indian Standard Time on 3 November (04:00 Yerevan time), then to a deep depression, a weaker storm system, by 17:30 Indian Standard Time on 3 November (16:00 Yerevan time). The meteorological department advised fishermen to stay out of the west central Bay of Bengal and not to fish along or off the Andhra Pradesh coast until the afternoon of 4 November.
Before landfall, the India Meteorological Department forecast a severe cyclonic storm with winds of around 100–110 km/h and gusts reaching 120 km/h.
Before landfall, Weathernews forecast a storm surge of 1.0–1.5 metres above astronomical tide that could flood low-lying areas of southern coastal Andhra Pradesh, with the highest surge in Bapatla, Krishna and Prakasam districts. It said forecast models agreed on the storm’s track but differed on its landfall intensity, ranging from a severe cyclonic storm to a deep depression.
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Update ·
Cyclone Murasu has come ashore near Ongole, flooding coastal areas and damaging trees, power poles, crops and boats.
