Bhubaneswar: The depression over the southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm on November 16 and further strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm by November 17, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its latest bulletin issued at 5.30 PM on Sunday.
The system, moving north-northwestwards at a speed of 15 kmph during the past six hours, lay centred over the same region at 11.30 AM on November 15, near latitude 9.8°N and longitude 86.8°E.
It was located about 620 km east-northeast of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka, 680 km west-southwest of Sri Vijaya Puram in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 800 km east-southeast of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, 960 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and 1,070 km south-southeast of Gopalpur in Odisha.
According to the IMD, the system is very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify into a cyclonic storm over the central parts of the south and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal on November 16.
It is further likely to strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm over the westcentral Bay of Bengal on November 17. Thereafter, the system is expected to intensify further and move northwestwards towards the Andhra Pradesh coast over the subsequent two days.
