The state government took necessary steps on Friday to tackle the impact of a depression over the Bay of Bengal, which is likely to cross the south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coast around Saturday morning, officials said.

In its 8:13 pm bulletin, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said, “The well-marked low-pressure area over northwest and adjoining central Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards, concentrated into a depression. At 5:30 pm, the system lay centered 60km south-southeast of Puri, 130km east of Gopalpur and 230km east-northeast of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh).” “The system is very likely to cross south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puri and Kalingapatnam close to Gopalpur September 27 morning,” a senior scientist at the meteorological centre, Bhubaneswa

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