Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The low-pressure, developed in Southwest Bay Of Bengal and Equatorial Indian Ocean last evening, is likely to take the shape of a cyclone storm by March 21 and head towards Bangladesh-Myanmar coasts with likely landfall on March 23.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) DG Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said “The system will become well-marked and lie Southeast of the Bay of Bengal and the South Andaman Sea and Nicobar Island by March 19 morning. It will gradually head in the north-northwestward near Andaman and Nicobar Islands, intensify into a depression on March 20 and develop into a cyclonic storm by March 21.”
The IMD DG further added that if the system intensifies into a cyclonic storm, it will be called ‘Cyclone Asani’, a name is given by Sri Lanka. The name roughly translates to wrath in Sinhala. The system, however, is unlike to turn into a cyclone of high intensity. It is among the list of 169 storms listed by IMD in 2020. ‘Amphan’ was last in the list of names for cyclone complied in 2004 and a new panel of India, Bangladesh, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Yemen was formed in 2018 to decide the names of the future cyclones.
