Bhubaneswar: The well-marked low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression and is set to take the shape of a cyclonic storm on Monday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday.
The depression, now over the southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal, is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm on November 16 and further strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm by November 17, it said.
The system was located approximately 700 km west-southwest of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 860 km east-southeast of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, 1,040 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and 1,160 km south-southeast of Gopalpur in Odisha.
The depression is very likely to continue moving north-north-westwards and intensify further into a cyclonic storm over the central parts of the south and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal on November 16.
It is likely to strengthen further into a severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal on November 1.
The weather agency is monitoring the movement and intensification of the system. Further updates on its likely trajectory and associated weather conditions are expected in subsequent bulletins.