New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the depression over the Bay of Bengal will rapidly intensify into a Deep Depression on Sunday, October 25.

This marks the first major escalation of a weather system that is on a trajectory to transform into a "very severe" cyclonic storm before making landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast next week.

According to the latest IMD update, the system is very likely to move nearly southwards today, intensify into a Deep Depression, and then gradually recurve west-northwestwards over the Eastcentral and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal by October 26 morning.

It will likely develop "into a severe cyclonic storm over west-central Bay of Bengal around the morning of 27 Octob...