Chennai: The Regional Meteorological Centre issued a heavy rainfall warning for 14 districts of Tamil Nadu on Saturday, as weather systems over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea continue to intensify.

According to the latest bulletin, a deep depression that was persisting over the central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal since October 2 moved northwest and made landfall near Gopalpur, on the southern Odisha coast, by evening.

Another deep depression over the Saurashtra coast and nearby areas strengthened further on October 1, shifted into the northeast Arabian Sea by October 2, and is now located about 240 km west-southwest of Dwarka, Gujarat.

This system is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm within the next three hours and may move westwards before weakening gradually

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