Why it is in the news
On 20 September 2026 the India Meteorological Department (IMD) placed the eastern seaboard on notice. Its bulletin of 1300 hrs IST recorded a low pressure area over the eastcentral Bay of Bengal and the adjoining north Andaman Sea, and forecast that it would concentrate into a depression on 21 September, deepen into a deep depression on 22 September, and reach the northwest Bay of Bengal near the north Andhra Pradesh–south Odisha coasts around the morning of 23 September.
The exam angle
Issue: India's cyclone early-warning system is among the best in the developing world, yet losses from rainfall and inland flooding associated with weak systems remain high. Is the warning architecture, built around named cyclones and coastal landfall, adequate for a hazard whose damage is increasingly pluvial and inland?