Well Marked Low Pressure area over Bay to gather steam, to intensify as Cyclonic Storm Akvan on Nov 16

Chennai, Nov. 14 -- The Well Marked Low Pressure area over the Bay will intensify into a Depression, consolidate further and become a Cyclonic Storm Akvan on November 16, with the evolving weather dynamics expected to determine the location of itslandfall.

Met office sources said the location of the landfall would be predicted once the system intensified into a Depression. Thereafter the movement of the system and the wind pattern would determine it.

This is the fourth Low Pressure area in succession to form over the Bay since the onset of Northeast monsoon on October 15. This would also be the third successive Cyclonic Storm over the Bay after the Vere Severe Cyclonic Storm Arnab and Severe CyclonicStorm Murasu, which have crossed the An...