Southern India, Sri Lanka brace for new tropical threat

Another tropical threat is taking shape over the Bay of Bengal only days after deadly Cyclone Nivar slammed southern India. On Monday morning, local time, an area of low pressure in the southern Bay of Bengal developed into a tropical depression, according to India’s Meteorological Department. The waters of the Bay of Bengal are still warm, and wind shear, or the change in wind speed at different levels of the atmosphere, is forecast to remain…