Depression in Bay of Bengal weakens to well-marked low

The depression in the Bay of Bengal has weakened after becoming a well-marked low pressure area on Friday. The system shifted in a northeast direction in the last 24 hours and at 8.30 am today, it was positioned at latitude 17.5° north and longitude 92° east.

The well-marked low will cross the Odisha coast by 26^th of May and bring extensive rain over Gangetic West Bengal and Northeast India. The weather system has been hovering in the Bay of Bengal for the last one week and is now travelling towards coastal Odisha.

According to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, the wind sheer which is important for the strengthening of any such system has increased and weakened the system.

Weathermen at Skymet Meteorology Division in India kept a close eye on the weather system. Since its emergence as a cyclonic circulation over north Andaman Sea, the weather system has been showing lot of uncertainty. It was not an organized weather system and was frequently changing its location.

The weather system could have intensified to become a deep depression and take shape of the season's first low intensity tropical cyclone, but it has now weakened and will dissipate completely by the 27^th of May.