In a major weather update, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday (October 22) said the well-defined low-pressure system located over the southwest Bay of Bengal off the North Sri Lanka coast has moved northwestwards and is likely to intensify into a depression the same day.

It noted that the weather system lay over the southwest Bay of Bengal off the Tamil Nadu coast at 5.30 am on Wednesday.

“While moving northwestwards, there is a possibility for the (weather system's) intensification into a depression over southwest and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal off north Tamil Nadu and south Andhra Pradesh coasts during the next 12 hours,” the Met Department said in a press release.

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