Indian commuters make their way through a rain-soaked street ahead of Cyclone Arnab’s expected landfall on Wednesday. (EPA Images pic)BHUBANESWAR: Two states along India's eastern coast were preparing to evacuate thousands of people ahead of Cyclone Arnab, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, as one of them said it would close schools in some districts for two days.
Arnab, which formed over the Bay of Bengal before intensifying into a cyclonic storm, is expected to make landfall in Andhra Pradesh state by Wednesday morning, with gustsof as much as 140 kph (87 mph), India's weather office said.
The weather system is expected to bring heavy to extremely heavy rainfall to Andhra Pradesh's northern and central coastal districts, and southern regions of neighbouring Odisha.
