Port Blair, Sept 19: The low-pressure area over the East-Central Bay of Bengal has become ‘well-marked,’ and the latest outlook indicates that it could go on to become not just a depression but a deep depression.
A deep depression is second only to a tropical cyclone in intensity, and, in this manner, the ‘low’ would have strengthened three times rapidly to attain this status by Thursday.
The system is expected to head west-north-west towards the North Andhra Pradesh South Odisha coasts and cross the coast between Kalingapatnam and Puri late on Thursday night or early Friday morning.
The India Met Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rain over the North-Eastern States, Coastal Odisha, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Wednesday.
