The Bay of Bengal has worked around a persisting depression, fuelling its growth into a deep depression on Thursday and promising to ramp it up as a tropical cyclone by Friday itself.
India Met Department located the deep depression to 560 km southeast of Visakhapatnam and 690 km south-southeast of Paradip on Thursday afternoon.
Squally weather may prevail along the coast.
The weakening phase of the cyclone will be initiated from early morning on Saturday, an outlook from the US Naval Observatory said.
Spookes trackers According to the US agency, the landfall of the weakened system (likely as a depression) is likely to happen along the coast of Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.
In fact, the brewing cyclone had spooked all major tracking centres except the US agency which had issued a cyclone formation alert in the Bay from Wednesday evening itself.
It now appears that the Andhra Pradesh coast would likely to have another strong weather system during the first half of the next week.
Wind field projections by India Met Department point to another likely tropical cyclone heading towards the coast by Tuesday/Wednesday in rare back-to-back visitations by Bay of Bengal cyclones. A parent circulation is already taking shape across India’s territorial waters, 537 km southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Successor storm The ‘low’ would cross into the Andaman Sea as early as Monday by when it would grow into a depression and head later into the open Bay waters.
Excess rain is confined to the Andhra Pradesh coast and down to the south over Sri Lanka during the week beginning November 12, which coincides with the projected landfall.