The Northeast Monsoon season, spanning from October to December is also known as prominent cyclone season for Indian Seas that India witnessed recently with two back to back weather system developing in the Bay. Out of the two, one intensified into a cyclone while chances of the other into a cyclone remained quite limited.
These cyclones usually follow monthly norms and do not follow the said track. This got witnessed this year in the month of December when Cyclone Ockhi which strengthened into a very severe cyclone, defied every cyclonic norm. The cyclone despite traveling in both the Indian seas, failed to make a landfall. It did not hit the Tamil Nadu coast in a manner the cyclones are said to hit in December.
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Similar is the case with the weather system that has developed into a deep depression, though it will not strengthen into a cyclone. This weather system has also skipped Tamil Nadu which is unusual.
As of now, this Deep Depression which is over the central Bay of Bengal has moved further north-northwestwards and is at present 510 km south-southeast of Gopalpur and 610 km east-southeast of Machilipatnam. This system is likely to move in a north-northwest direction and will reach North Coastal Andhra Pradesh and South coastal Odisha in the next 24 hours as a depression.
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Thus, it is likely to follow a north-northwest track and will give good rains over the districts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. However, it will be Odisha that is likely to bear the brunt of damaging winds and flooding rains. Property and structural damages due to strong gusty winds are expected in Odisha. Though the system is likely to weaken, it will still have enough potential to cause destruction in parts of the state.
Thus, the districts such as Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, and Ganjam in Odisha are expected to record some heavy flood-causing rains while Vizag and Srikakulam may witness heavy rains.
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