Depression nears coast; CM reviews readiness

The state government Friday took necessary steps to tackle the impact of a depression over the Bay of Bengal that is likely to cross the south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coast around Saturday morning, officials said.

- PNN & AGENCIES

In its 8:13pm bulletin, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said, “The well marked low pressure area over northwest and adjoining central Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards, concentrated into a depression. At 5:30pm, the system lay centered 60km south-southeast of Puri, 130km east of Gopalpur and 230km east-northeast of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh).”

“The system is very likely to cross south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puri and Kalingapatnam close to Gopalpur September 27 morning,” a senior scientist at the meteorological centre, Bhubaneswar, said.