Cyclone Arnab begins making landfall in India's Andhra Pradesh state
BHUBANESWAR: A severe cyclone began making landfall in India’s Andhra Pradesh state in the early hours of Wednesday, bringing high-speed winds and heavy rain that uprooted trees and disrupted power supplies, authorities said.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same cyclone's landfall in Andhra Pradesh, adding evacuation figures that don't conflict with Report 1.
1h agoAlso reported by livemint.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)
1h ago[Claude, second read] Agrees: HIGH, a new event. Severe cyclone making landfall with high winds and power disruption; hundreds of thousands without power is plausible, meets high threshold.
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