Chennai, Nov. 15 -- The Well Marked Low Pressure Area over the Bay has intensified into a Depression on Sunday and it will further intensify into a Cyclonic Storm Akvan tomorrow.

In a Special bulletin this morning, IMD said the Well Marked Low Pressure Area over Southeast Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards, intensified into a Depression and lay centered at 0530 hours over Southeast and adjoining Southwest Bay of Bengal, about 700km west-southwest of Port Blair (Andaman Island), 860 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu), 1040 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 1160 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha).

After intensifying as a Deep Depression, it is very likely to continue to move north-northwestwards, int...