Kolkata woke up to overcast skies on a windy Monday morning because of a weather system over the Bay of Bengal.
The depression intensified into a deep depression and lay centred over northwest Bay of Bengal close to southeast of Chandbali at 5.30am on Monday, according to an alert from the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Light to moderate rainfall at many places with isolated heavy to very heavy falls was very likely over north coastal Andhra Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand and Telangana on Monday and Tuesday, according to the IMD bulletin on Monday morning.
The low pressure over the Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards and crossed north Odisha coast close to south of Chandbali between 5.30am and 6.30am and lay centred over north coastal Odisha close to Chandbali at 6.30am as a deep depression, according to the IMD.
It would move west-northwestwards across north Odisha and north Chhattisgarh and weaken gradually into a depression during the next 24 hrs.
An IMD Kolkata alert on Monday morning said: “Thunderstorm with lightning and light to moderate rainfall likely to affect over some parts of Kolkata and Howrah districts of West Bengal during next 1-2 hours from 08:40 hours IST of today the 13th September' 2021.”
