Cyclone Murasu makes landfall on India’s eastern coast

Severe cyclonic storm uproots trees and downs power lines, days after another cyclone battered the same region.

Dark clouds loom over India's Bay of Bengal coast as it rains on November 2, 2026, in Chennai before Cyclone Murasu's landfall [R Satish Babu/AFP]

Cyclone Murasu has made landfall on India’s eastern coast, uprooting trees, toppling electricity poles and flooding low-lying areas in Andhra Pradesh. It is the second cyclone to strike the region in a week after Cyclone Arnab .

The severe cyclonic storm came ashore near Ongole in Prakasam district about 1am on Tuesday (19:30 GMT on Monday), according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

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The IMD warned of heavy to very heavy rain across several districts through the day.

No deaths or injuries have been reported so far, Prakhar Jain, the managing director of the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority, told the Reuters news agency. He said some trees and electricity poles had been uprooted.

The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported extensive damage in Prakasam and Bapatla districts, where thousands of trees were felled, hundreds of power poles damaged and fishing boats wrecked. Standing crops were also hit, and many areas were underwater.

Authorities began evacuating people on Monday and planned to move about 30,000 people to safety in Andhra Pradesh, Jain said.

“This is the most dangerous cyclone we have witnessed in the last 14 years,” Krishnamma, a fisherman from Kothapatnam in Prakasam district, told PTI. He said about 400 families from his village had been moved out before the storm hit.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said on X that he had spoken to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu about the cyclone’s impact.

“I assured him that the Central Government will provide all kinds of assistance and support,” Shah wrote, adding that national and state disaster response teams were already on the ground.

Murasu formed over the Bay of Bengal, which regularly spawns deadly storms on India’s east coast. It comes days after Cyclone Arnab caused heavy damage in Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring Odisha.

The IMD forecast that Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to its south would be worst hit. Murasu is also causing heavy rain in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Odisha.

强气旋风暴连根拔起树木，刮倒电线，而就在几天前，同一地区刚刚遭受另一场气旋风暴的袭击。

2026年11月2日，在穆拉苏气旋登陆前，印度孟加拉湾沿岸下起了雨，乌云密布。图为钦奈。[R Satish Babu/AFP]

飓风穆拉苏在印度东海岸登陆，造成安得拉邦部分地区树木连根拔起、电线杆倒塌、低洼地区被淹。这是继飓风阿尔纳布之后，一周内袭击该地区的第二个飓风。

据印度气象局 (IMD) 称，强气旋风暴于周二凌晨 1 点左右（周一格林尼治标准时间 19:30）在普拉卡萨姆县翁戈尔附近登陆。

列表1/3：印度一周内遭遇第二次气旋，数千人撤离

列表 2/3：飓风在印度造成严重破坏，数千人撤离

图3（共3张）：致命气旋“阿尔纳布”过后印度南部的景象

印度气象局警告称，当天多个地区将出现大到暴雨。

安得拉邦灾害管理局局长普拉卡尔·贾恩告诉路透社，目前尚未收到人员伤亡报告。他说，一些树木和电线杆被连根拔起。

印度报业托拉斯（PTI）报道称，普拉卡萨姆和巴帕特拉两县遭受严重破坏，数千棵树木被吹倒，数百根电线杆受损，渔船沉没。农作物也受到波及，许多地区被淹。

贾恩表示，当局从周一开始疏散民众，计划将约 3 万人转移到安得拉邦的安全地区。

“这是我们近14年来遇到的最危险的飓风，”来自普拉卡萨姆县科塔帕特南的渔民克里希纳玛告诉印度报业托拉斯（PTI）。他说，风暴来袭前，他所在村庄约有400户人家已被转移。

印度内政部长阿米特·沙阿在X电视台表示，他已与安得拉邦首席部长N·钱德拉巴布·奈杜就飓风的影响进行了交谈。

沙阿写道：“我向他保证，中央政府将提供各种援助和支持”，并补充说，国家和各邦的灾害应对小组已经抵达现场。

穆拉苏飓风在孟加拉湾形成，该海湾经常给印度东海岸带来致命风暴。就在几天前，气旋阿尔纳布刚刚给安得拉邦及其邻近的奥里萨邦造成了严重破坏。

印度气象局预测，安得拉邦及其南部的泰米尔纳德邦将遭受最严重的打击。台风“穆拉苏”也给泰米尔纳德邦、本地治里和奥里萨邦带来了强降雨。