{"id":3709,"date":"2026-11-03T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:03:58","slug":"cyclone-murasu-makes-landfall-on-indias-eastern-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Murasu makes landfall on India&#8217;s eastern coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Cyclone Murasu made landfall \u200balong India\u2019s eastern coast on Tuesday, the country\u2019s \u200cweather department said, the second storm to hit the region in a week as authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u200bIndia Meteorological Department said the severe cyclonic storm \u200bcrossed the coast of the south-eastern state of \u2060Andhra Pradesh between 03:30 and 05:30 local time, with \u200bwind speeds of 100-110 kph and gusts \u200bof up to 120 kph.<\/p>\n<p>No deaths or injuries have been reported so far, although some trees and electric poles were uprooted, \u200bPrakhar Jain, Managing Director of the Andhra Pradesh State \u200bDisaster Management Authority, said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities began evacuating thousands of people on Monday \u200cand \u2060planned to move some 30,000 to safety in Andhra Pradesh, which is in the path of the cyclone.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Murasu formed over the Bay of Bengal, a major region for \u200btropical cyclones \u200bthat has \u2060spawned deadly storms on India\u2019s east coast.<\/p>\n<p>IMD forecasts said the states of Andhra Pradesh and \u200bTamil Nadu to its south would be \u200bworst \u2060hit.<\/p>\n<p>At least six people were killed in <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/six-killed-cyclone-off-indias-eastern-coast-2026-10-29\/\">Cyclone Arnab<\/a>, which was classified by IMD as a very severe cyclonic storm and \u2060made \u200blandfall in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone Murasu made landfall \u200balong India\u2019s eastern coast on Tuesday, the country\u2019s \u200cweather department said, the second storm to hit the region in a week as authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety. The \u200bIndia Meteorological Department said the severe cyclonic storm \u200bcrossed the coast of the south-eastern state of \u2060Andhra Pradesh between 03:30 and 05:30 local time, with \u200bwind speeds of 100-110 kph and gusts \u200bof up to 120 kph. No deaths or injuries have been reported so far, although some trees and electric poles were uprooted, \u200bPrakhar Jain,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}