India, Nov. 15 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday issued a pre-cyclone watch for Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts as a depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by November 17.

According to the latest IMD bulletin, the depression over the southeast and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal was located about 630 km east of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka, 690 km west-southwest of Sri Vijaya Puram in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 840 km east-southeast of Chennai, 1,010 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam and 1,130 km south-southeast of Gopalpur in Odisha at 8.30 am.

The weather system is very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify into a cyclonic storm over...