A depression over the Bay of Bengal is moving north and could become a cyclonic storm named Akvan by November 16. The India Meteorological Department said the system is likely to intensify into a severe storm on November 17, eventually moving northwest towards the Andhra Pradesh coast over two days.
Visakhapatnam: The depression over the southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal moved nearly northwards at a speed of 10 kmph during the past three hours and lay centred over the same region, according to an India Meteorological Department (IMD) bulletin.
The system was located about 630 km east of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 690 km west-southwest of Sri Vijaya Puram (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), 840 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu), 1,010 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 1,130 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha).
The depression is very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify into a cyclonic storm, named Akvan, over the central parts of the south and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal on Monday (November 16). It is further likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal on November 17.
Thereafter, the system is likely to intensify further and move northwestwards towards the Andhra Pradesh coast over the subsequent two days.