Bhubaneswar: The cyclonic storm 'Hudhud' over Andaman sea which is approaching Odisha-Andhra coast, will make landfall on October 12, IMD sources said.
The clear picture of the storm regarding intensity, wind speed and its movement will be known within next 24 hours, sources added.
A bulletin issued by the IMD said, "Yesterday's low pressure area over Tenasserim Coast and adjoining Andaman Sea has concentrated into a depression and lay centred at 0830 hours over North Andaman Sea and neighbourhood near latitude 11.50 degree N and longitude 95.00 degree E about 1380 Km southeast of Gopalpur."
"It would move in a west-northwesterly direction and intensify into a deep depression within 24 hours and further intensify into a cyclonic storm thereafter," the bulletin said.
The MET office also forecast rain or thundershower at one or two places over Odisha during the next 24 hours.
"As the system is more than 1300 km from the state coast, we have not issued any warning for fishermen. However, authorities of Paradip and Gopalpur ports are advised to hoist distant cautionary signal number one," said IMD, Bhubaneswar, director S C Sahoo.