The coastal regions of India are likely to witness heavy rainfall as an upper air cyclonic circulation over the central Andaman Sea has moved to the North Andaman Sea on Sunday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported.

This circulation is expected to lead to the formation of a low-pressure area over the East Central Bay of Bengal and adjoining North Andaman Sea in the next 24 hours, news agency ANI reported.

According to the IMD, "It is very likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify into a depression by October 22 morning and into a cyclonic storm by October 23, over East Central Bay of Bengal."

After that, it is expected to move northwest and reach the northwest Bay of Bengal off the Odisha-West Bengal coasts by the morning of October 24, ANI stated.

Yesterday’s upper air cyclonic circulation over central Andaman Sea lay over North Andaman Sea in the early morning (0530 hours IST) and persisted over the same region in the forenoon (0830 hrs IST) of today, the 20th October 2024. Under its influence, a Low Pressure Area is very…

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IMD has issued a weather warning. "Very heavy rainfall is likely to occur over South Interior Karnataka and Andaman & Nicobar", the weather bureau said.

Additionally, heavy rainfall is expected in Gujarat, Konkan & Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Coastal & North Interior Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Rayalaseema, and Andhra Pradesh today, reported ANI, quoting a tweet put out by the weather bureau.