Bhubaneswar, Dec. 6 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that a low pressure area that formed over south Andaman Sea and neighbourhood is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by December 7.

"The Low Pressure Area over south Andaman Sea & neighborhood with associated cyclonic circulation extending upto mid tropospheric levels persists. It is likely to move west-northwestwards and concentrate into a Depression over Southeast Bay of Bengal by 06th December evening," the IMD Bhubaneswar said in its evening weather bulletin.

"Thereafter, it is likely to continue to move west-northwestwards, intensify further gradually into a Cyclonic Storm and reach Southwest Bay of Bengal near north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & adjoin...