Depression over northeast Arabian Sea moving away from India

The depression over Arabian Sea is moving westwards away from the Indian coast but continued to batter coastal Gujarat and Maharashtra with heavy rainfallOn the other hand a wellmarked lowpressure area WMLPA over north Jharkhand and Bihar brought in very heavy rainfall over large parts of Gangetic belt on ThursdayThe depression over northeast Arabian Sea amp adjoining Kutch moved westwards and lay centred over northeast Arabian Sea off Gujarat coast about 60 km westnorthwest of Devbhoomi Dwarka Gujarat 280 km eastsoutheast of Karachi Pakistan and 860 km eastsoutheast of Chabahar Port Iran on Thursday morning It is very likely to move westnorthwestwards and intensify into a deep depression over northeast Arabian Sea off north Gujarat coast during night the IMD said in a releaseThen it is very likely to move further westnorthwestwards and intensify into a Cyclonic Storm during the subsequent 24 hours Thereafter it is likely to continue to move westnorthwestwards close to Pakistans Makran coasts moving away from the Indian coast it saidSaurashtra and Kutch are likely to see reduction in rainfall from Friday onwardsThis is a remnant of cyclonic storm Gulab that had originated in the Bay of Bengal and traveled westwards across central Indian states dropping more than abundant rainfall on routeUnder the influence of the WMLPA over north Jharkhand amp adjoining Bihar and its remnant fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall is very likely over Bihar and subHimalayan West Bengal and Sikkim till October 3Very heavy rainfall is also likely over Bihar on October 2 subHimalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on both October 2 and 3 and extremely heavy falls over 20 cm are very likely at isolated places over Bihar on Friday the IMD saidDue to easterly trough rainfall activity is very likely to increase over south peninsular India from Friday with fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with heavy falls over Tamil Nadu Kerala and coastal and south interior Karnataka between October 1 to 4Fishermen have been advised not to venture into north and adjoining central Arabian Sea and along and off Gujarat and north Maharashtra coasts from till October 2 the IMD release saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliabilitsy and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever