Heavy rain with gale is lashing Vijayawada city on Wednesday morning and a number of trees were uprooted and many roads inundated after severe cyclonic storm Montha crossed Andhra Pradesh coast near Narasapur in West Godavari district, south of Kakinada overnight, IMD said on Wednesday.

After crossing the coast, the weather system moved northwestwards with a speed of 10 kmph during the past six hours to weaken into a cyclonic storm, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) bulletin issued at 5 am said.

"The latest observations indicate that the severe cyclonic storm Montha crossed Andhra Pradesh and Yanan coasts between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, south of Kakinada and close to Narsapur during midnight (11.30 pm of October 28 and 12.30 am of October 29)," IMD said in a release.

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