Overview
- IMD says Montha has weakened from a severe cyclonic storm to a deep depression moving northwest across coastal Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and Chhattisgarh.
- Authorities evacuated tens of thousands into more than 1,200 relief camps, with medical camps activated and power restoration teams deployed across affected districts.
- Indian Railways canceled over 120 trains and diverted or rescheduled many others, while dozens of flights were scrubbed at Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati airports.
- Andhra Pradesh reported two cyclone‑related deaths and preliminary damage to about 38,000 hectares of standing crops and 138,000 hectares of horticulture.
- Heavy rain, waterlogging and landslides affected parts of Odisha and Telangana, with Odisha later downgrading alerts as the system weakened but kept warnings for isolated heavy falls.