Chennai: A weather system in the Bay of Bengal has rapidly intensified, with a depression strengthening into a deep depression and projected to develop into Cyclone Montha by Monday, October 27. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an Orange Alert for Tiruvallur, Chennai, and Ranipet districts, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall on the day of the cyclone’s formation.

The deep depression is currently moving slowly in a west-northwestward direction. It is expected to concentrate into a depression over the southeastern and adjoining central Bay of Bengal today, intensify into a severe depression by Sunday, and finally mature into a cyclonic storm on Monday. This progression has put authorities in both Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh on high alert.

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