A low-pressure area formed over the southeastern Bay of Bengal on Friday morning and could intensify into a depression before potentially developing into a cyclonic storm as the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has said.
BMD meteorologist Md Omar Faruq confirmed the system's formation with noting that while it is currently projected to move toward India’s Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coasts and its exact trajectory will become clearer once it strengthens into a depression.
"It will certainly develop into a depression and it could then turn into a cyclonic storm" Faruq said. "Once the depression forms also we will have a clearer idea of which direction it will move."
Despite the developing system in the Bay, weather across Bangladesh is expected to remain mainly dry with temporarily partly cloudy skies while day and night temperatures are likely to stay largely unchanged.
According to BMD data, the country's highest rainfall in the 24 hours up to 6:00 am on Friday was recorded at 15.3 mm in Panchagarh’s Tetulia while the highest temperature reached 33.6 degrees Celsius in Chattogram’s Ambagan.
