Low pressure concentrates into depression in Orissa, WB

Visakhapatnam, Aug 5 (UNI) The low pressure area formed over North West Bay of Bengal off Orissa-West Bengal coast concentrated into a depression and lay centered about 239 km south east of Balasore at 0530 hrs today.

A special weather bulletin issued by the cyclone warning centre here said the system, likely to intensify further and move in a West North Westerly direction would cross North Orissa-West Bengal coast between Paradeep and Digha tonight.

Under its influence, widespread rainfall with squatered heavy to very heavy falls and isolated extremely heavy falls were likely over Orissa during the next 48 hours.

Fairely widespread rains with isolated heavy to very heavy rain fall is also likely over North Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Chattishgarh, Gangeatic West Bengal and Jharkhand during the same period.

Squally winds with speed reaching 45 to 55 kmph is likely along and off the Orissa and West Bengal coasts.

As the sea condition would be very rough, fishermen were advised not to venture into the sea during the next 24 hrs, the bulletin added.

UNI