Al Jazeera English, on Climate, 3 November 2026

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Cyclone Murasu makes landfall on India’s eastern coast

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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). Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Thousands evacuated as India braces for second cyclone in a week list 2 of 3 Cyclone leaves trail of destruction in India as thousands evacuated list 3 of 3 Photos: Aftermath of deadly Cyclone Arnab in southern India end of list 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. Advertisement Murasu formed over the Bay of Bengal, . 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.

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What we found (1)

Al Jazeera reports Cyclone Murasu's landfall in Andhra Pradesh clearly and with careful sourcing for damage, evacuations and the absence of reported deaths. But it never says that warming makes intense tropical cyclones more likely. Its only word on cause presents such storms as a regular feature of the Bay of Bengal.

  1. Leaves out the climate link

    Serious

    “which regularly spawns deadly storms on India’s east coast”

    Why this matters
    The words "regularly spawns deadly storms" are the article's only explanation of where Murasu came from. They present the cyclone as a routine product of the Bay of Bengal.
    The impression it gives
    A reader takes the second severe cyclone in a week as nothing more than the region's usual weather, with no connection to a warming climate.
    The context
    Human-caused warming has made intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe. Nowhere does the article say so, even in a short line. It also reports two cyclones striking the same coast within a week, and a local fisherman calling Murasu the most dangerous in 14 years.

    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”.
    • Elsewhere in the article“the most dangerous cyclone we have witnessed in the last 14 years”

    Show it in the article

    Written straight

    Murasu formed over the Bay of Bengal, which regularly spawns deadly storms on India's east coast; climate change is making intense tropical cyclones like this more likely.

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