Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said that the well-marked low-pressure area over the southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Equatorial Indian Ocean has concentrated into a depression.
As per the IMD’s latest bulletin, the system is about 420 km east-northeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 600 km south-southeast of Nagappattinam (Tamil Nadu) and 690 km southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu).
The system is likely to continue to move north-northwestwards during the next 24 hours and thereafter gradually recurve west-southwestwards towards Comorin Area across Sri Lanka during the subsequent 48 hours, said IMD.
Under the influence, light to moderate rainfall at many places with heavy rainfall at isolated places is likely over south coastal Tamil Nadu will occur on December 25 and 26, 2022. Similarly, light to moderate rainfall at a few places with heavy rainfall at isolated places is likely over south Kerala on December 26, 2022.
The IMD has further advised fishermen not to venture into Southwest Bay of Bengal and along & off Sri Lanka coast during 22nd – 25th December.
