Under the influence of depression developed over west-central Bay of Bengal, widespread rainfall with scattered heavy to very heavy falls would occur over coastal areas of Orissa and West Bengal during next 48 hrs, and isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur over coastal Andhra Pradesh during next 24 hrs.
Squally winds with speed reaching 45-55 kmph would occur along and off north Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal coasts during next 48 hrs.
The depression over west-central Bay of Bengal moved northwards and lay centered at 11.30 hrs IST of Thursday at 120 km east of Visakhapatnam, 220 km south-southwest of Gopalpur in Orissa and 700 km southwest of Digha in West Bengal.
Meteorology Department advises fishermen not to venture into the sea off these coasts during this period. Sea condition will be rough to very rough along and off these coasts during the same period.
The current environmental condition and numerical weather prediction (NWP) models suggest that the condition would intensify further and move initially northwards for some time, and then re-curve north-northeastwards and cross Orissa coast between Gopalpur and Paradip by Thursday night.