STH stormwatch : First depression of 2015 in the Bay of Bengal

'The depression over northwest & adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal off north Andhra Pradesh­south Odisha coast moved northwestwards during past 3 hours and lay centred at 1730 hours IST of today, near Lat. 18.5°N and Long.85.5°E, about 150 km south of Puri.
The system would move northwestwards and cross Odisha coast between Gopalpur and Puri by tomorrow forenoon.'
- IMetD

Praful Rao,
Kalimpong,
Dist Darjeeling