Bhubaneswar: The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by Friday and cross the Bangladesh coast, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.
The IMD said that the depression intensified into the deep depression on Thursday and was moving north-northeastwards at a speed of 17 kmph.
It lay centred around 390 km east-southeast of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and 320 km south-southeast of Paradip in Odisha at 8.30 am on Thursday.
Even though the system is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by tomorrow. However, there will be no impact on Odisha, the IMD added.