Cyclone Warning For Odisha & Andhra Pradesh After Depression Over Bay Of Bengal Intensifies

The condition is also likely to cause light to moderate showers at most places and very heavy rainfall at isolated places over Odisha and coastal Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.

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New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department(IMD) has warned that a depression over the northeast and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal has intensified into a deep depression and may further turn into a cyclonic storm.

The IMD on Saturday also said that the storm may move towards Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

According to the weather department, the deep depression lay centred 510 km east-southeast of Gopalpur and 590 km east of Kalingapatnam in Andhra Pradesh early on Saturday.

"It is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours. It may move nearly westwards and cross north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha coasts, between Vishakhapatnam and Gopalpur around Kalingapatnam by the evening of September 26," the IMD stated.

The condition is also likely to cause light to moderate showers at most places and very heavy rainfall at isolated places over Odisha and coastal Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.

Light to moderate showers at most places and with heavy to very heavy rain in some areas and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places over Odisha and north coastal Andhra Pradesh is also likely on Sunday. Parts of north interior Odisha, Telangana and Chhattisgarh may also experience heavy rainfall on Sunday.

The IMD has also warned fishermen in Odisha, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh about venturing out into east-central and adjoining northeast Bay of Bengal from September 25 to September 27. The department has said that for the next three days the sea condition will be rough to very rough.

The weather is also likely to cause localised flooding of roads, waterlogging in low-lying areas of coastal Andhra Pradesh on September 26 and Odisha and Chhattisgarh over the next two days.