Pacific super typhoon Jelawat has wound down to one step below class-topping strength even as counterpart storm Ewiniar lurked nearby on Wednesday.
Monsoon flows feeding into the two systems have strengthened in upstream Bay of Bengal, which is expected to lead to formation of a low-pressure area.
‘LOW’ EXPECTED
India Meteorological Department (IMD) expects this to happen over the next two days; satellite maps clearly showed a circulation building in the basin.
Global forecasts show this system intensifying into a tropical storm, with the flows taking it into the Gulf of Thailand and adjoining Thailand.
From there, it is forecast to stay suitably positioned to send in some rain bands into Myanmar, Bangladesh and adjoining northeast India.
Rain or thundershowers have been forecast at a few places over coastal Andhra Pradesh on Thursday and at many places thereafter.
RAINS FOR SOUTH
Forecast valid until Saturday said rains are likely to lash Telangana, Rayalaseema, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep and Tamil Nadu and scale up later.
Odisha, Marathawada, Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan and Goa also may witness thundershowers.
Elsewhere, the drencher trough of lower pressure running from Assam and Meghalaya to west-central Bay of Bengal persisted.
This formation will continue to fetch rainfall of various amounts to parts of east and northeast, including the heavily flooded Assam and Meghalaya belt.