Deep Depression over Westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal
The Deep Depression over westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal moved northnorthwestwards with a speed of 13 kmph and lay centered at 0300 UTC of today, the 02nd October 2025 over the same region near latitude 18.00N and longitude 85.60E, about 160 km south-southeast of Gopalpur, 170 km east of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 200 km south of Puri (Odisha), 250 km east-northeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 280 km southsouthwest of Paradip (Odisha). It is very likely to continue to move north-northwestwards and cross Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh coasts between Gopalpur and Paradip by night of 2nd October.
As per INSAT-3D imagery at 0300 UTC of the 02nd October, Vortex lay over Westcentral Bay of Bengal & neighbourhood centered near 17.8°N/85.7°E. Intensity of the system is T2.0. Associated scattered to broken low and medium clouds with embedded intense to very intense convection lay over Westcentral & North Bay of Bengal, Telangana, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal (Minimum cloud top temperature 70-90°C)
DATE/TIME POSITION MAXIMUM SUSTAINED SURFACE CATEGORY OF CYCLONIC
(UTC) (LAT.0N/ LONG.0E) WIND SPEED (KMPH) DISTURBANCE
02.10.25/0300 18.0/85.6 55-65 GUSTING TO 75 DEEP DEPRESSION
02.10.25/1200 18.9/85.3 55-65 GUSTING TO 75 DEEP DEPRESSION
03.10.25/0000 20.3/84.8 45-55 GUSTING TO 65 DEPRESSION
03.10.25/1200 21.7/84.3 35-45 GUSTING TO 55 DEPRESSION
