Bhubaneswar: The severe cyclonic storm Murasu over westcentral Bay of Bengal is now just 120 km away from the Andhra Pradesh coast, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its latest bulletin today.
According to the IMD, the severe cyclone moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 14 kmph during the past six hours and lay centred at 11:30 am on November 2 over westcentral Bay of Bengal near Latitude 14.2°N and Longitude 81.1°E, about 120 km east-southeast of Nellore, 140 km east-southeast of Kavali, 170 km northeast of Chennai, 180 km southeast of Ongole and 220 km south of Machilipatnam.
The system is very likely to move northwestwards and cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast as a severe cyclonic storm with wind speed of 100 to 110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph between Nellore and Narsapur, to the south of Ongole during midnight of today to early hours of tomorrow.
IMD said the severe cyclonic storm is under continuous surveillance of Doppler Weather Radars at Chennai, Machilipatnam and Visakhapatnam. A red warning has been issued for Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu coasts.
