The India Meteorological Department says a weather system over the Bay of Bengal will intensify into a deep depression on September 22, 2026, threatening days of very heavy rain across Odisha and coastal Andhra Pradesh.

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• A low-pressure area that formed over the north Andaman Sea on September 20, 2026, has tracked west-northwestwards over the east-central Bay of Bengal.
• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasts the system will intensify into a deep depression over the west-central Bay of Bengal on September 22, 2026.
• The system is expected to reach the north Andhra Pradesh-south Odisha coast around the morning of September 23, 2026.
• IMD has issued red warnings for extremely heavy rainfall in Odisha’s Kandhamal, Gajapati, Ganjam, and Puri districts between September 23 and 25.
• Orange warnings cover heavy to very heavy rainfall across Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Boudh, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkangiri, Khordha, and Nayagarh districts.
• North coastal Andhra Pradesh is forecast to see heavy to very heavy rainfall, with isolated extremely heavy spells on September 23 and 24.
• Squally winds of 50-65 kmph, gusting higher, are forecast over the central and northwest Bay of Bengal through September 24.
• IMD has advised fishermen to avoid the east-central and northeast Bay through September 22, and the west-central Bay and Andhra-Odisha-West Bengal coasts from September 22 to 24.
• The Odisha government has placed 20 coastal and southern districts on alert, with ten more district collectors asked to maintain vigil.
• The system is also expected to trigger widespread rainfall over Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Jharkhand, and Gangetic West Bengal between September 22 and 26.
• The rain-bearing system is approaching even as the southwest monsoon has begun withdrawing from parts of northwest India, creating a sharp weather divide across the country.