Indian authorities ordered about 100,000 people to evacuate their homes in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha before a severe cyclone expected to make landfall by Wednesday, according to the national meteorological department. Neighboring Nepal and Sri Lanka also issued weather warnings. The Indian Meteorological Department said in a bulletin that Cyclone Arnab is expected to hit the southwest coast of Andhra Pradesh as a "very severe cyclonic storm," with gusts reaching speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour, on Wednesday morning at 6:00 GMT (11:30 India Standard Time).
Heavy rain fell on the coast in the coastal city of Kakinada, with huge waves crashing onto the beach. The Indian Meteorological Office said it expects the cyclone to cause "complete destruction" of thatched houses, cause local flooding, uproot power and communication poles, and cause "widespread damage" to standing crops. In Kakinada, police set up barriers on roads leading to the sea. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu ordered "continuous monitoring of the storm and taking advance precautions," according to his office in a statement on Monday.
Indian authorities order evacuation of about 100,000 people as Cyclone Arnab approaches east coast Indian authorities ordered about 100,000 people to evacuate their homes in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha before a severe cyclone expected to make landfall by Wednesday Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 04:18 AM
Press TV reports the evacuation ordered ahead of Cyclone Arnab, the weather department's forecast of destruction and the precautions taken in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. It never tells its reader that warming makes intense tropical cyclones like this one more frequent or more severe, so the storm reads as a purely natural event.
Leaves out the climate link
Serious
“Cyclone Arnab is expected to hit the southwest coast of Andhra Pradesh as a "very severe cyclonic storm,"”
Why this matters
Press TV describes Cyclone Arnab as a "very severe cyclonic storm" and sets out the expected destruction and flooding. Nowhere in the report does it say that warming makes storms of this intensity more likely.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away thinking this very severe cyclone is a natural hazard with no connection to the warming climate.
The context
The documented record shows that human-caused warming has made intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe. The article carries no sentence on this, not even a brief one.
How we know
On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “warming”.
The India Meteorological Department said Cyclone Arnab was expected to hit Andhra Pradesh as a "very severe cyclonic storm". Climate change is making intense tropical cyclones like this more frequent and more severe.