New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said that the Depression over the East Central and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal is likely to move southwards and intensify into a Deep Depression. According to the IMD's latest update, the weather phenomenon will further in intensify further into a cyclonic storm and into a severe cyclonic storm by the morning of Tuesday, October 27.

The weather agency noted that the system would intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm and reach Westcentral Bay of Bengal near the Andhra Pradesh coast around the morning of October 28.

Cyclone Arnab is expected to make landfall between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam as a very severe cyclonic storm with the maximum sustai...