A deep depression that had formed over the Bay of Bengal has weakened into a regular low-pressure system and moved inland over Bangladesh, prompting forecasts of heavy rainfall across parts of eastern India and southern Bangladesh through the weekend, officials said on Friday.
This development is drawing moist winds from the southeast into southern West Bengal, leading to consistent rainfall across the region.
The low pressure area was likely to form on the Odisha coast either on May 26 or 27, Dr SC Sahu, Director of CEC, said.
A low-pressure area is likely to form over the Bay of Bengal around 27 May and is expected to intensify over the following days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said today.
This year's Monsoon onset is said to be the earliest in the past seven years.
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