New Delhi:Â Cyclone Hudhud, which is fast approaching the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coastline, has intensified into a “very severe cyclonic storm”, the Met Department said on Friday.
Indian Meteorology Department director L S Rathore said the cyclone will further strengthen in the next few hours, bringing heavy to very heavy rainfall in the northern districts of Andhra Pradesh.
The District Collector of Visakhapatnam, where Hudhud is expected to make landfall on Sunday, said the wind speed of the cyclone could go up to 180kmph by the time it hits.
“Thirty five thousand people will be evacuated tomorrow. Forty relief centres have been set up.”Â
Andhra Pradesh and Odisha were hit by Cyclone Phailin in October last year. The wind speed of Phailin was over 200kmph and it brought widespread destruction in the two states
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