A fresh low-pressure area formed over southeast Bay of Bengal on Friday (October 24) is gaining strength and is set to intensify into a cyclonic storm on October 27, causing heavy rainfall across Odisha and some parts of West Bengal for three days starting Monday (October 27), officials said.

Bhubaneswar Meteorological Department Director Manorama Mohanty said the weather system has moved west-northwestwards and is likely to move in that direction further.

”It will become a depression over 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 told reporters.

Asked whether the system will make landfall on the Odisha coast, she sai

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