Bhubaneswar: The well-marked low pressure over westcentral Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards has concentrated into a depression, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Wednesday evening.

The system was about 400 km east-southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 420 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha), 450 km south of Puri (Odisha) and 500 km south of Paradip (Odisha) at 11.30 am. It is very likely to continue to move north-northwestwards, intensify further into a deep depression and cross Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh coasts between Gopalpur and Paradip in the early hours of October 3, it added. ADVERTISEMENT

Under its influence, heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorm/lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph may occur at one or two pl

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