Bhubaneswar, Sept. 30 -- Rainfall may play spoilsport in Dussehra festivities in Odisha as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that a low-pressure area is likely to form over the Bay of Bengal tomorrow. The system may intensify into a depression around October 2 (Dussehra).

"A low-pressure area is likely to form over the central parts of the Bay of Bengal around 1st October. It is likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify into a depression over the west-central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal around 2nd October. It is likely to continue to move west-northwestwards and cross the south Odisha-North Andhra Pradesh coasts around the morning hours of 3rd October," the IMD said in a bulletin.

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