India, Nov. 15 -- Odisha is likely to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall in several districts from November 18 as a weather system over the Bay of Bengal is expected to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday.

The system, currently a depression over the southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal, is very likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm over the central parts of the south and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal on November 16. It is likely to further strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal on November 17.

Once it intensifies into a cyclonic storm, the system will be named 'Akvan'. The storm is likely to move northwestwards tow...