BULLETIN NO. : 01 (ARB 01/2018)
TIME OF ISSUE: 1200 HOURS IST DATED: 13.03.2018
Sub: Depression over southeast Arabian Sea
Yesterday’s well marked low pressure area over Equatorial Indian Ocean and adjoining south
Srilanka & Maldives-Comorin area concentrated into a depression and lay centred at 0830 IST of
today, the 13th March 2018 over southeast Arabian Sea adjoining equatorial Indian Ocean near
latitude 5.00N and longitude 76.00E, about 480 km southeast of Minicoy, 390 km south-southwest of
Thiruvananthapuram and 290 km east-northeast of Male (Maldives). It is very likely to move
northwestwards and intensify into a deep depression during next 48 hrs.