Bhubaneswar: The depression over the Bay of Bengal was located about 1,030 km south-southeast of Gopalpur in Odisha at 5.30 pm on Sunday and is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by the evening of November 17, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
According to the latest IMD post on X, the system over the southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards at a speed of 7 kmph during the past six hours and lay centred near latitude 10.2°N and longitude 86.8°E at 5.30 pm.
The weather system was also located about 630 km east-northeast of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka, 670 km west-southwest of Sri Vijaya Puram in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 780 km east-southeast of Chennai in Tamil Nadu and 920 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
The depression is very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify into a cyclonic storm over the central parts of the south and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal by the evening of November 16.
It is further likely to strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal by the evening of November 17, the IMD said.
Thereafter, the system is expected to intensify further and move northwestwards towards the Andhra Pradesh coast during the subsequent two days.
