Chennai: A deep depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal is gradually intensifying and is expected to develop into a cyclonic storm ‘Montha’ by Monday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday.

The system, currently moving northwestward at a speed of about 8 kilometres per hour, is likely to bring heavy rainfall and strong winds to several coastal districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry over the next two days.

In its latest bulletin, the IMD said the deep depression, which formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal, was centred about 800 kilometres east-southeast of Chennai at 5.30 a.m. on Sunday.

It is forecast to intensify into a cyclonic storm by early Monday over the southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal. Meteorologists predict that the system wi

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