Chennai, Oct. 29 -- A fresh Low Pressure areas has formed over the Bay, the fourth in succession, on Thursday morning, which was expected to intensify further and the possibility of concentrating into a Cyclone and hitting Chennai coast by November 1-2 was not ruled out.

If this system over the South Andaman sea and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal intensifies into a Cyclone, unlike the Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Arnab which moved away towards the Andhra Pradesh coast without hitting Tamil Nadu, there was a likelihood of it crossing the North Tamil Nadu coast close to Chennai.

This is the fourth back to back system to form over the bay ever since the onset of Northeast Monsoon which remained active and vigorous. The first system formed o...