Cyclone Hudhud over East Central Bay of Bengal moved westnorth westward and lay centred over West Central Bay and adjoining East Central Bay at 5.30 pm today at about 675 km east-southwest of Visakhapatnam, a weather office report said tonight.

The depression would continue moving west north westwards and intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm during thenext 12 hours, it said.

The depression would cross north Andhra Pradesh and Odissacoasts between Visakhapatnam and Gopalpur by forenoonof October 12, 2014, the report said.

Distant warning signal number two has been kept hoisted at Visakhapatnam, Machilipatnam, Nizampatnam, Krishnapatnamports, the report said.

Distant warning signal number two with section signalnumber two and three have been kept hoisted at Kakinada and Gangavaram ports, the report said.