Cyclone Montha, which made landfall late Tuesday night between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, has now weakened from a “extreme cyclonic storm” to a cyclonic storm, in response to the India Meteorological Division (IMD). Regardless of the downgrade, the storm has left a path of destruction throughout coastal Andhra Pradesh and components of Odisha and Telangana.

• The cyclone, which introduced wind speeds of as much as 110 kmph, claimed one life and injured two others in separate incidents. In Konaseema district, an aged lady died after a tree collapsed on her home. Elsewhere, a younger boy and an auto driver sustained accidents when coconut timber had been uprooted by robust winds.

• The storm started making landfall round 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, crossing the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts, south of Kakinada. IMD reported its middle was positioned 50 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam on the time.

• Montha’s wind speeds ranged between 90–100 kmph, gusting as much as 110 kmph. The IMD has warned of extraordinarily heavy rainfall in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Telangana.

• South Central Railway CPRO knowledgeable attributable to prevailing cyclonic situations, Indian Railways has cancelled 122 trains, whereas a couple of others have been regulated, rescheduled, or diverted. In whole, round 160 trains had been affected.

• Most of those trains operated between the Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada sections.

• A complete of 37 flights had been cancelled throughout Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, together with 30 operated by IndiGo, 2 by Air India, and 5 by Air India Specific.

• Faculties in Andhra’s NTR and Bapatla districts had been closed attributable to adversarial climate. In Odisha’s Gajapati district, all colleges, faculties, and anganwadi centres will stay shut till October 30.

• Standing crops inside an space of 38,000 hectares and horticulture crops unfold over 1.38 lakh hectares had been destroyed in Andhra Pradesh because of the impression of the extreme cyclonic storm ‘Montha’, the CMO stated.

“Because of the impression of the cyclone, heavy rains throughout the state destroyed standing crops in 38,000 hectares and horticulture crops in 1.38 lakh hectares,” stated a press launch from the chief minister’s workplace, citing preliminary estimates