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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday said the depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm and cross the Andhra Pradesh coast between Nellore and Narsapur on the morning of November 3.
This comes days after Cyclone Arnab made landfall near Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on October 28, causing heavy rainfall in the region,
A new cyclonic storm is brewing over the Bay of Bengal
The IMD, in its bulletin issued at 9:15 pm, said that the depression over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Andaman Sea had moved west-northwest at a speed of 30 kmph during the previous six hours.
At 5:30 pm, the system was centered about 960 km east-southeast of Chennai, 980 km southeast of Visakhapatnam, 1,030 km southeast of Machilipatnam and 1,080 km east-southeast of Ongola, the meteorological agency said.
The system is very likely to move west-northwest and intensify into a deep depression over southeast Bay of Bengal by Saturday midnight, a cyclonic storm over the same area on November 1 and a severe cyclonic storm over west-central Bay of Bengal on November 2.
“It is very likely to reach over west-central Bay of Bengal near south coast of Andhra Pradesh by the morning hours of November 3 and cross the south coast of Andhra Pradesh as a severe cyclonic storm with wind speed of 100-110 kmph, gusting to 120 kmph, between Nellore and Narsapur on November 3 morning,” the IMD said on November 3.
A depression is a weather system more intense than a low pressure area but less powerful than a cyclonic storm.
Manorama Mohanty, director of the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre, said the department was closely monitoring the system.
IMD predicts heavy rainfall | Full Weather Alert
The IMD said on Saturday that under the influence of the system, isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely to occur over Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coast on November 2 and isolated very heavy rainfall on November 3; isolated very heavy rainfall also likely over Rayalaseema on 2nd and 3rd November and Odisha on 3rd and 4th November 2026.
Isolated heavy rainfall is likely to occur over Arunachal Pradesh during November 1 and 2. The IMD has also forecast isolated heavy rainfall over parts of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal and Telangana on November 2 and 3; in Kerala and Mahe during 1-4 November; Coastal and North Interior Karnataka 3 November.
