Depression deepens in Bay of Bengal

South coast Andhra Pradesh will receive rains from Monday onwards with heavy fall expected over Nellore and Chittoor, says IMD report

Update: 2022-03-05 19:50 GMT
Commuters drive along a road during a heavy monsoon rainfall in Chennai. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Visakhapatnam: The depression over southwest Bay of Bengal has intensified into a deep depression and has moved northwards, the Indian Meteorological Department report said on Saturday evening.

The report said the deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal moved northwards with a speed of about 14 kmph during last six hours and lay centered at over the same region about 360 km north-northeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 320km east-northeast of Nagappattinam (Tamil Nadu), 300 km east-southeast of Puducherry (Tamil Nadu) and about 290 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu).”

The IMD report further added that south coast Andhra Pradesh will receive rains from Monday onwards with heavy fall expected over Nellore and Chittoor.

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