New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- A deep depression over the westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal is expected to cross the north Andhra Pradesh-south Odisha coasts between Visakhapatnam and Gopalpur, close to Kalingapatnam, by the night of 23 September, bringing heavy to very heavy rainfall across parts of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

The system is likely to produce heavy to very heavy rainfall, with isolated extremely heavy rainfall, over north coastal Andhra Pradesh, south interior Odisha and south Chhattisgarh on 24 September.

Rainfall is expected to spread across central and eastern India over the following days. Chhattisgarh is likely to see fairly widespread ...