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India Met Department (IMD) seems to have withdrawn the cyclone watch in the Arabian Sea, away from Lakshadweep, as a prevailing deep depression appeared to stall.
But a squally weather alert with winds speeding up to 50 km/hr and gusting to 60 km/hr has been retained for the Lakshadweep area for the rest of the day today.
Winds speeding up to 65 km/hr and gusting 75 km/hr would prevail over the Arabian Sea to the west of the Lakshadweep Islands during the same period.
Winds of only slightly lesser intensity (55 km/hr gusting to 65 km/hr) are warned over the central parts of the South Arabian Sea tomorrow and South-West Arabian Sea the day after.
Fisherman have been warned not to venture out into the waters around Lakshadweep Islands variously until the day after tomorrow.
The IMD said the deep depression is located 330 km west-south-west of Kavaratti atoll; 320 km west-south-west of Agatti; and 1,730 km east-south-east of Socotra Islands (Yemen).
It expects the system to maintain the intensity during the next 24 hours and weaken into a depression thereafter due to dry air entrainment (from the Arab deserts) and weakening of the storm structure.
But the US Joint Typhoon Warning Centre saw scope for some intensification of the system during the next two days and dissipation over the sea waters thereafter.
Meanwhile, the circulation over the Gulf of Thailand that entered the South Andaman Sea now lies over South-East Bay of Bengal and adjoining equatorial Indian ocean, the IMD said.
It will soon set up a fresh low-pressure area over the central parts of South Bay and scale up the rainfall with isolated heavy falls over the South-East Peninsular India (Tamil Nadu coast) until Wednesday.
Action is also building over the North-West Pacific with tropical storm 'Toraji' spotted just off the Vietnam coast, and a trailing system '98C' off the Philippines, expected to reach depression status soon.
It could have 'telescopic' influence on the weather over the South China Sea and the adjoining Andaman Sea and the South-East Bay in due course, according to some models.
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