Saturday’s depression over south-east Bay of Bengal moved nearly west-northwest and intensified into a deep depression over the same region, the penultimate stage before being named as a tropical cyclone.

The deep depression was located this (Sunday) morning about 610 km west of Port Blair; 790 km east-southeast of Chennai; 850 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam; 840 km south-east of Kakinada; and 950 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha), an India Meteorological Department (IMD) outlook said.

No change in outlook

It may move west-northwest and intensify further into a cyclone (to be named as Montha in Thai language) over Bay waters slightly away from north Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh coasts by tomorrow (Monday) morning.

Thereafter, it is likely to move north-west and later nort

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