Andhra Pradesh set for another storm on November 3

THE India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday that a depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm and cross the Andhra Pradesh coast between Nellore and Narsapur on the morning of November 3.

This comes a few days after Cyclone Arnab made landfall near Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on October 28, triggering heavy rainfall in the region,

In its bulletin issued at 9.15 pm, the IMD said the depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Andaman Sea had moved west-northwestwards at a speed of 30 kmph during the previous six hours.

At 5.30 pm, the system was centred about 960 km east-southeast of Chennai, 980 km southeast of Visakhapatnam, 1,030 km southeast of Machilipatnam and 1,080 km east-southeast of Ongole, the weather agency said.

The system is very likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify into a deep depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal by midnight on Saturday, a cyclonic storm over the same region on November 1 and a severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal on November 2, it said.

"It is very likely to reach over the west-central Bay of Bengal near the south Andhra Pradesh coast by the early hours of November 3 and cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast as a Severe Cyclonic Storm with wind speeds of 100-110 kmph, gusting to 120 kmph, between Nellore and Narsapur by the morning of November 3," the IMD said.

A depression is a weather system more intense than a low-pressure area but less powerful than a cyclonic storm.

Manorama Mohanty, director of the Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar, said the department was closely monitoring the system.

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The IMD said on Saturday that under the influence of the system, isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam on November 2 and isolated very heavy rainfall on November 3; isolated very heavy rainfall also likely over Rayalaseema on November 2 and 3 and over Odisha on November 3 and 4, 2026.

Isolated heavy rainfall is likely over Arunachal Pradesh during November 1st and 2nd. The IMD also predicted isolated heavy rainfall in parts of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal and Telangana on November 2 and 3; in Kerala and Mahe during November 1st-4th; Coastal and North Interior Karnataka on November 3.