The Odisha Government on Saturday said it has activated its disaster readiness model in view of an impending severe cyclonic storm (SCS) likely to cross neighbouring Andhra Pradesh coast on October 28, officials said.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued the pre-cyclone watch for South Odisha coasts and said the state was likely to witness heavy rain for three days from October 27 as a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression.

In its 5.30 PM bulletin, IMD said the depression moved nearly westwards and lay centred around 970 km southeast of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) and 1,030 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha).

Depression is a weather condition followed by a low-pressure area and preceded by a cyclonic storm, a scientist at IMD at Bhuban

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