Bhubaneswar: A fresh low-pressure area formed over southeast Bay of Bengal on Friday may intensify into a cyclonic storm by October 27. The system is likely to trigger heavy rainfall across Odisha for three days starting Monday.

The weather system has moved west-northwestwards over the past three hours and is likely to move in that direction further, the Met department said. Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre Director Manorama Mohanty said the system will become a depression over the southeast and adjoining central Bay of Bengal by October 25, a deep depression by October 26 and a cyclonic storm over the southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal by the morning of October 27.

Mohanty said it is too early to predict whether the system will make landfall on the Odisha coast. "But w

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