The low pressure area that may develop in the southeast of the Bay of Bengal on May 7 may strengthen from a small storm to a cyclone, according to the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH).
According to the announcement, a low pressure area will form in the southeast of the Bay of Bengal on May 7. The low pressure area will intensify into a depression on May 8, move northward, and strengthen into a cyclonic storm in the central part of the Bay of Bengal.
A low pressure area may form over South Bay of Bengal and it may further intensify into a depression. Weather will be partly cloudy to cloudy over the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, according to the forecast for first ten days of May by the DMH.
Rain or thundershowers will be below normal in Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady, Taninthayi regions and Northern Shan, Chin, Rakhine, Kayin, Mon states and about normal in Nay Pyi Taw, Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway regions and Kachin, Southern and Eastern Shan, Kayah states.
Rainy days are expected about 4 to 6 days in Taninthayi Region and Kachin, Eastern Shan, Kayin, Mon states and about 1 to 3 days in Nay Pyi Taw, Sagaing Mandalay, Magway, Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady regions and Northern and Southern Shan, Chin, Rakhine, Kayah states.
Day temperature will be 1.5°C above normal of May average temperatures in Nay Pyi Taw, lower Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway, Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady regions and Shan, Rakhine, Kayah states and about normal of May average temperatures in upper Sagaing, Taninthayi regions and Kachin, Chin, Kayin, Mon states.
