Cyclone Asani: Deep Depression Over Southeast Bay Of Bengal To Intensify In Next 24 Hours

North and Middle Andamans experienced rain and strong winds but life in Port Blair remained normal, they said. The system is expected to move towards the Bangladesh-Myanmar coasts.

NDRF personnel airlifted to Andaman Nicobar Islands in view of Cyclone Asani, in Arakkonam, Sunday. (Image Soure: PTI)

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said the depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal and the adjoining south Andaman Sea will intensify further into a deep depression during the next 24 hours, ANI reported. 

"Yesterday's Well marked Low pressure area intensified into a depression over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea at 0530 IST of today the 20th March 2022. To intensify further into a Deep Depression during next 24 hours," the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a Twitter post on Sunday.

Due to strong winds and rains, normal life is affecting parts of Andaman & Nicobar on Sunday because of Cyclone Asani, officials said according to a PTI report. The year's first cyclonic storm gets closer to the archipelago inter-island shipping services have been stopped and fishermen were warned not to venture into the sea. 

Around 100 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed and six relief camps opened in various parts of the islands as a precautionary measure, told PTI.

North and Middle Andamans experienced rain and strong winds but life in Port Blair remained normal, they said. The system is expected to move towards the Bangladesh-Myanmar coasts.

The national weather forecasting agency has issued rainfall warnings for Andaman and Nicobar Islands and said that light to moderate rainfall/thundershower at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and isolated extremely heavy rainfall are very likely over the Andaman Islands and isolated heavy rainfall over the Nicobar Islands today.

For tomorrow, the IMD has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and isolated extremely heavy rainfall. Sea conditions are very likely to be rough to very rough over the Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal today, the IMD informed.