Depression over southeast Bay of Bengal, expected to intensify into cyclone: IMD

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, November 30

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Latest satellite and ship observations indicate that the well-marked low-pressure area over the southeast Bay of Bengal and its neighbourhood concentrated into a Depression and lay centred on Monday morning, about 750 km east-southeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka) and 1,150 km east-southeast of Kanyakumari (India), the IMD said.

It is very likely to intensify further into a Deep Depression during the next 24 hours. It is also likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm. It is very likely to move west-northwestwards and cross Sri Lanka coast between latitude 7.50 N and 9.00 N around the evening of 2nd December.

It is very like to move nearly westwards thereafter and emerge into Comorin area on December 3 morning, it said.