VISAKHAPATNAM: Vizagites can heave a sigh of relief as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officials on Thursday said that the cyclonic storm ‘Kyant’ had weakened into a deep depression and it would bring only rain to a few places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh.
“The Kyant has weakened into a deep depression. Having moved further west southwest-wards, it is now lay centred over west-central Bay of Bengal near latitude 15.5 degrees north and longitude 85.0 degrees east, 310 km south-east off Visakhapatnam coast and 420 km east off Machilipatnam and 550 km east-north-east of Nellore,” the IMD officials said.
The depression is most likely to move west-south-west-wards and weaken further into a depression before moving towards south coastal AP or adjoining north Tamil Nadu coast. “The deep depression may further weaken into a depression during the next 12 hours and light to moderate rainfall is expected at a few places of coastal AP followed by squally winds at a speed of 25-30 km per hr till October 30,” Cyclone Warning Centre (CWC) officials here said, adding that the sea condition, however, would be rough along the coast.