The depression over the Bay of Bengal Sunday intensified into a deep depression and was slowly moving towards the east coast, prompting the Odisha government to put all 30 districts on alert, officials said.

The IMD has stated that the cyclonic storm is very likely to cross the Andhra Pradesh coast between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, around Kakinada, during the evening/night of October 28 as a severe cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 90-100 kmph, gusting to 110 kmph.

Odisha will experience very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall October 28 and 29, it said.

The IMD has issued red, orange, and yellow alerts for several southern and coastal districts of Odisha, where rainfall above 20 cm could be experienced at isolated places.

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