Low pressure to intensify into depression in 36 hours; heavy rain alert for Odisha

The low pressure area over westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal off north Andhra Pradesh and South Odisha moved west-northwestwards and became a well marked over the same region, informed the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday.

As per IMD, it is likely to move further west-northwestwards towards north Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts, and intensify into a depression over westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal during the next 36 hours.

Earlier, the IMD issued heavy rainfall warning for some districts in Odisha. A red warning for extremely heavy rainfall for some districts has been issued by the weather agency on Thursday.