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Severe cylonic tempest Montha near a way of demolition successful Andhra Pradesh, leaving 2 persons dormant and inundating cultivation crops crossed 87,000 hectares. It besides damaged roads, bridges and culverts, and uprooted trees, officials said aft a preliminary assessment.
The terrible cyclonic tempest crossed the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts betwixt 11:30 p.m. connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025) and 12:30 a.m. connected Wednesday (October 29), adjacent to Narsapuram successful Andhra Pradesh, the India Meteorological Department said. Wind speeds touched 90 kmph adjacent the Machilipatnam seashore arsenic the tempest crossed the coast. It gradually weakened into a cyclonic tempest by 2:30 a.m. and past into a heavy slump by 8:30 a.m. connected Wednesday (October 29), it added.
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At 5:30 p.m., the heavy slump implicit northbound Andhra Pradesh, southbound Odisha, southbound Chhattisgarh and northeast Telangana weakened into a slump implicit southbound Chhattisgarh. It is apt to determination northwards and weaken into a well-marked low-pressure country during the adjacent 12 hours, the bulletin astatine 8:30 p.m. said.
Cyclone interaction
Two districts, SPSR Nellore and Prakasam, received highly dense overnight rain. Ongole successful Prakasam territory received 25 cm; Chimakurthi (Prakasam) 24 cm, Kandukur and Kavali (SPSR Nellore) 22 cm; and Addanki (Bapatla) recorded 19 cm.
In total, 27 stations successful the State, astir of them successful Prakasam, SPSR Nellore, and Bapatla, recorded 10 cm and much during the 24-hour play ending astatine 8 a.m. connected Wednesday.(October 29)
According to preliminary assessment, crops were damaged connected 87,000 hectares crossed 304 mandals and 1,825 villages. Over 59,000 hectares of paddy, cotton, maize, and achromatic gram fields were submerged, resulting successful terrible losses to 78,796 farmers.
Several roads, 14 bridges, and aggregate culverts were damaged. About 2,294 km of the Roads and Buildings section roads were affected, with losses estimated astatine ₹1,424 crore. The Rural Water Supply section sustained losses of astir ₹36 crore, portion irrigation works worthy ₹16.45 crore were affected.
The Narsapuram coast, wherever the landfall happened, saw nary large damage. West Godavari Collector Chadalavada Nagarani said, “The Narsapuram seashore did not witnesser immoderate large loss. However, 268 trees, mostly coconut, collapsed. Nearly 100 much trees are believed to person uprooted. The National Disaster Response Force unit are removing those trees from the roads”.
However, Uppada, a celebrated weaver municipality connected the Kakinada coast, reported dense losses. As galore arsenic 61 houses were damaged. Houses belonging to fisherfolk were damaged by elephantine waves. Kakinada Collector S. Shan Mohan said: “No quality nonaccomplishment has been reported on the Kakinada coast. Crops connected much than 5,500 acres person been damaged and 51 km of roads person besides been damaged”.
At the Kumbabhishekam food landing constituent adjacent Kakinada Deepsea port, Gaddepalli Sairam, a fisherman hailing from Dummulapeta is feared to person drowned successful the sea. The NDRF unit person intensified the hunt successful the sea.
CM reviews measures
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu took banal of the cyclone interaction astatine Odalarevu successful Allavaram mandal of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district, Bapatla and Machilipatnam during an aerial survey. Pointing retired that Prakasam and Nellore districts bore the brunt of dense rains, the Chief Minister said harm to crops and assets has been reported successful each coastal district. The nonaccomplishment is being enumerated.
Referring to compensation to the cyclone victims, Mr. Naidu said the fisherfolk who failed to undertake sportfishing activities and handloom weavers would beryllium fixed 50 kg of rice, isolated from indispensable commodities. They volition besides beryllium paid ₹3,000 per family. The different affected radical volition get 25 kgs of rice.
Pointing retired that much than 1.8 lakh radical were evacuated to 2,200 alleviation camps to minimise nonaccomplishment of life, the Chief Minister said: “Our strategy of evacuating radical from the susceptible areas helped minimise nonaccomplishment of beingness and property. Past experiences of dealing with earthy calamities and exertion helped america plan a robust preparedness plan,” Mr. Naidu told the media astatine a alleviation campy astatine Odalarevu.
