Bhubaneswar: The Deep Depression over Northeast Bay of Bengal off Bangladesh coast moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 27 kmph during past 6 hours and crossed Bangladesh coast close to east of Khepupara during 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm, as a deep depression with maximum sustained wind speed of 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph, the IMD informed.
“Continuing to move west-northwestwards, it lay centred at 5:30 pm on August 1, over coastal Bangladesh and neighbourhood near latitude 22.5°N and longitude 89.5°E, close to west of Mongla (Bangladesh), about 220 km east-northeast of Digha (West Bengal) and 120 km east of Kolkata (West Bengal),” the IMD bulletin read.
The system is likely to move further west-northwestwards across Gangetic West Bengal and maintain it’s intensity of deep depression till early morning of 2nd August. Thereafter, it is likely to weaken into a depression and continue to move west-northwestwards during subsequent 24 hours.
The IMD has issued a red warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) at a few places with isolated extremely heavy falls (>20cm) very likely to occur over the districts of Balasore, Angul, Dhenkanal, Boudh, Keonjhar, and Mayurbhanj. Also there are possibility thunder with lightning activity.
