Audio Briefing: Cyclone Arnab Barrels Toward Andhra Coast as 570,000 Face Evacuation

NEW DELHI — In this News Plus Globe Audio Briefing, Alexander Vance reports on Cyclone Arnab, which strengthened from a deep depression into a cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal on Monday, October 26, and is forecast to strike the Andhra Pradesh coast as a very severe cyclonic storm on the morning of October 28, with winds of 115 to 125 kilometres per hour gusting to 140. The briefing tracks the storm's position, its forecast path between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam, and the evacuations under way for about 570,000 vulnerable people, in the context of our World News coverage.

The briefing also covers Andhra Pradesh's deployment of disaster response teams, Odisha's red warning and school closures, the national deployment of National Disaster Response Force teams across three states, and what residents in the storm's path should watch next, a week after Typhoon Champi battered Taiwan. More from News Plus Globe as new bulletins arrive.