Though Hudhud will not be a "super cyclone", the wind speed of 195 kmph would be enough to cause damage.
Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh and two districts of Ganjam and Gajaptinagaram in Odisha are expected to be the most affected.
Koraput, Malkajgiri, Raigarh and Kalahandi are some of the other districts of Odisha which are also likely to be affected by Hudhud.
The IMD has also cautioned about heavy rain in the aftermath of the cyclone in neighbouring states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
As the country's national weather forecaster alerted the Centre and state governments with its fresh inputs, authorities have put all agencies on evacuation exercise.
Allaying all concerns, Union earth science minister Jitendra Singh said the Hudhud is "very severe" in scientific terms, but certainly not a "super cyclone".
He appealed to people "not to get unduly alarmist" because the concerned departments are already geared up for any eventuality and the IMD officials are maintaining a direct contact on regular basis with the administrations of the affected states including the chief secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
The IMD, meanwhile, in its post-landfall outlook said, "Even after landfall the system would maintain the intensity of very severe cyclonic storm for 6 hours and gradually weaken into a cyclonic storm in subsequent 6 hours while moving northwestwards across south interior Odisha and Chhattisgarh".
It said, "Under its influence, rainfall at most places with heavy falls at a few places would occur over south Chhattisgarh, adjoining Telangana and south Odisha and isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall over north Chhattisgarh and north Odisha".
The minister assured that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel and local authorities would be able to handle the situation.
He said the NDRF had got enough time to deploy as many as 20 teams comprising about 20 officials each to undertake rescue and relief operations, if necessary.
As per the IMD's latest prediction, gale wind speed reaching 100-120 kmph gusting to 130 kmph would prevail for 6 hours after landfall and 80-90kmph gusting to 100kmph for subsequent 6 hours over East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts of north Andhra Pradesh and Ganjam, Gajapati, Koraput and Malkangiri districts of Odisha during the same period.
"Squally winds speed reaching 55-65 kmph gusting to 75kmph would also prevail for next 12 hours after landfall over south Chhattisgarh and adjoining districts of north Telangana and south Odisha", the IMD said.
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