Overview
- The India Meteorological Department says a depression over the northwest Bay of Bengal has intensified into a deep depression and is expected to make landfall Monday, July 27, between Paradip (Odisha) and Sagar Island (West Bengal).
- Very heavy to extremely heavy rain is forecast for coastal Odisha and parts of Chhattisgarh and Gangetic West Bengal, with IMD flash‑flood guidance flagging moderate risk in more than a dozen districts after 24‑hour totals already reached about 330 mm in Jagatsinghpur.
- Squally winds of roughly 55–65 km/h with gusts up to 75–80 km/h will produce rough to very rough seas, prompting official bans on fishing along the Odisha, West Bengal and north Andhra coasts until about July 29 and warnings about uprooted trees and power outages.
- Local authorities have issued red/orange/yellow alerts, closed schools in some hard‑hit districts, and placed administrations on high alert to monitor rivers and respond to landslides, urban flooding and transport disruptions.
- The system is part of a broader monsoon revival driven by the monsoon trough and an east‑west shear zone, and forecasters say it will feed heavy rain into central and northern India this week with Pakistan’s meteorological service warning of a wider wet spell from July 29 over upper catchments.