The official machinery and the people in Andhra Pradesh heaved a sign of relief with the cyclone threat evading and the well-marked low pressure area over West-Central Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood concentrated into a depression and lay centred at 0530 hours IST of Thursday.
A spokesman of Cyclone Warning Centre here in a bulletin stated the depression lied over west-central Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood near latitude 16.5° N and longitude 86.5° E, about 370 km south-east of Puri and 470 km south of Chandbali in Odisha.
The system very likely is expected to move initially northwestwards and cross Odisha coast between Puri and Chandbali around midnight of Thursday or early morning of Friday. It is also very likely to intensify further into a deep depression during next 18 hours. Under its influence, heavy rainfall is expected in one or two places in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam district of north coastal Andhra. Fishermen have been advised not to venture into sea. Strong winds are likely to prevail in north coastal Andhra area during next 24 hours.
