A low-pressure area intensified into a depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal on Sunday morning, November 15. The weather department said the system is likely to move north-northwestwards. It will intensify into a cyclonic storm on Monday, November 16, and become a severe cyclonic storm by November 17.
A well-marked low-pressure area has intensified into a depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal (Representative image)
VIJAYAWADA: The well-marked low-pressure area over the southeast Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards and intensified into a depression on Sunday morning, November 15. The system lay centred over the southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal, about 700km west-southwest of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, 860km east-southeast of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, 1,040km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and 1,160km south-southeast of Gopalpur in Odisha. According to the weather department, the depression is very likely to continue moving north-northwestwards and intensify further into a cyclonic storm over the central parts of the south and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal on Monday, November 16. The system is further expected to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm over the westcentral Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, November 17.