Bhubaneswar: A deep depression has formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal and is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm within the next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday morning. Once intensified, the system will be named 'Cyclone Montha'.

According to IMD’s latest bulletin, the system is likely to continue moving in the west-northwest direction and intensify further into a cyclonic storm over the southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal in the next 24 hours. It is expected to strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm by the morning of October 28.

IMD forecasts that the system will move towards the Andhra Pradesh coast and make landfall between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, around Kakinada, during the evening or night of October 28. At th

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