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 of about 100,000 people in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha ahead of Cyclone Arnab and sources its forecast details to the Indian Meteorological Department. The article describes a very severe tropical cyclone and its expected destruction but never says that warming makes intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe. A reader comes away seeing the storm only as a 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," with gusts reaching speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour”
Why this matters
Press TV describes a very severe tropical cyclone with gusts of up to 150 kilometres per hour, and later the "complete destruction" it is expected to bring. Nowhere in this sentence or in the rest of the article does it link the storm's strength to the warming climate.
The impression it gives
A reader takes Cyclone Arnab as a purely natural event, with nothing to suggest that storms like it are becoming more intense.
The context
Human-caused warming has made intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe. The article contains no word on climate change or warming at all.
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 “climate” and “warming”.
The India Meteorological Department expects Cyclone Arnab to hit the Andhra Pradesh coast as a very severe cyclonic storm with gusts of up to 150 kilometres per hour. Climate change is making intense tropical cyclones like this more frequent and more severe.