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Hunker down: On Cyclone Arnab, its landfall
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In brief
Cyclone Arnab made landfall in Andhra Pradesh as a very severe cyclonic storm, with forecasters noting rapid intensification and unexpected timing that compressed evacuation windows.
Early reports indicated no loss of life, attributed to disaster management operations, though the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister later cited five deaths in the state.
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Updated - October 29, 2026 01:30 am IST
Cyclone Arnab, the first named storm of the North Indian Ocean cyclone season this year, intensified rapidly before making landfall as a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ on October 28. This particular rapidity is a challenge for forecasters and some models did fail to anticipate how strong Arnab would become. It also moved faster than expected towards the coast, before stalling for a time and beginning the landfall process several hours before the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted it would, in the middle of the night, leaving many district authorities with a potentially…
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