Severe cyclonic storm ‘Murasu’ is set to cross Andhra Pradesh coast between Nellore and Narasapur in the intervening night of November 2-3, the Meteorological Department said on Monday.

Under the influence of Murasu, the Met department forecast light to moderate rain or thundershowers across several places in Andhra Pradesh.

Around 8.30 am on Monday, Murasu lay centred over west-central Bay of Bengal, about 160 km east to southeast of Nellore, 210 km southeast of Ongole and 240 km south of Machilipatnam. Later, the weather system moved west to northwestwards with a speed of 22 kmph from west-central and adjoining Southwest Bay of Bengal.

“The severe cyclonic storm Murasu is very likely to move northwestwards and cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast as a severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 100 to 110 kmph (and) gusting up to 120 kmph between Nellore and Narasapur to the south of Ongole during midnight (11.30 pm) of today to early hours (4 am) of tomorrow, November 3,” the Met department said in an official release.