Cyclone Montha will cross near Kakinada coast on October 28 evening as severe cyclonic storm with gale winds of speed 90-100 gusting to 110 kmph, according to a bulletin issued by the IMD, Amaravati on Saturday.
The report said the depression over southeast Bay of Bengal moved
nearly westwards with a speed of 7 kmph during morning hours and lay centred about 440 km west-southwest of Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), 970 km southeast of Visakhapatnam , 970 km east-southeast of Chennai , 990 km southeast of Kakinada and 1040 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha).