Thousands of people were evacuated along India’s eastern coast, and some train services cancelled, one day before a severe cyclone was scheduled to make landfall, bringing gusting winds and heavy rain.
In neighbouring Nepal, authorities cautioned tourists against venturing into high altitude areas as they feared Cyclone Arnab could trigger torrential downpours, snowstorms and avalanches in the Himalayan region from Thursday night through Saturday.
The risks come at a time when the mountainous country is starting to recover from a deadly flash flood in August, which killed about 1,500 people.
Arnab, which formed over the Bay of Bengal, has intensified since Mondayy.
It is expected to make landfall in the southern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh by Wednesday morning, bringing strong winds and intense showers to parts of the state as well as neighbouring Odisha state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thousands of people were evacuated along India’s eastern coast, and some train services cancelled, one day before a severe cyclone was scheduled to make landfall, bringing gusting winds and heavy rain.In neighbouring Nepal, authorities cautioned tourists against venturing into high altitude areas as they feared Cyclone Arnab could trigger torrential downpours, snowstorms and avalanches in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n