Two states on India’s eastern coast are preparing to evacuate thousands of people ahead of Cyclone Arnab, which is scheduled to make landfall on Wednesday. One state has announced that schools in some areas will be closed for two days.
Arnab, a cyclonic storm that formed over the Bay of Bengal, is expected to make landfall in Andhra Pradesh by Wednesday morning, with gusts up to 140 kph (87 mph), according to India’s forecast office. The cyclone is likely to intensify further, it added.
The weather system is forecast to bring heavy to extremely heavy rainfall to Andhra Pradesh’s northern and central coastal districts, as well as southern areas of adjoining Odisha. Andhra Pradesh has requested that boats at sea return ashore and that power be restored as soon as possible during outages.
According to a top Andhra Pradesh crisis management official, the state administration has classified 570,000 individuals as vulnerable and plans to begin evacuations on Monday evening. Odisha’s government has closed schools and institutions in five districts for Tuesday and Wednesay, and plans to relocaresidents of in low-lying areas to cyclone shelters. The Bay of Bengal is a prominent location for tropical cyclones.
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