NEW DELHI: The depression over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea has moved north-northeastwards, intensified into a deep depression at 0530 hours on Monday over north Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal. It lay centred at 0830 hours IST, over the same region near latitude 12.3°N and longitude 93.8°E, about 140 km east-northeast of Port Blair (Andaman Islands), 120 km southeast of Mayabundar (Andaman Islands) and 560 km south-southwest of Yangon (Myanmar).
It is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm during next 12 hrs. It would continue to move nearly northwards along and off Andaman Islands towards Myanmar coast during next 48 hrs and cross Myanmar coast between latitude 180N and 190N around Thandwe (Myanmar) during early hours of March 23.
