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A low pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression by the early hours of 17 August and lay near the coast of West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh, before tracking northwestwards across Gangetic West Bengal towards Jharkhand. The India Meteorological Department issued a red alert for West Bengal and Odisha, forecasting isolated extremely heavy rainfall of over 204.5 millimetres, with heavy to very heavy rain also expected over Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. Several hill states, including Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, were placed under an orange alert for a separate spell of heavy rain.