extreme eastern border of the Indian Ocean, the India Meteorological Agency (IMD) immediately declared the storm a depression, and began issuing advisories on the system, because the system had already organized itself into a tropical depression in the west Pacific Ocean, on , which was a day before the system entered the IMD's area of responsibility. Later on , the system began showing signs of further, but slow organization, as the system continued moving west slowly. Early on , the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD) also issued their first advisory on the system, and the IMD simply called it Depression, becausing the storm had not yet entered the Bay of Bengal. Later on that day, the IMD reported that the system had weakened into an area of low pressure, due to the effects of crossing the Malay Peninsula, but they forecast it to become a depression soon again, as the storm was moving over warm water. Late on , the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the system, as it began reorganizing itself. Early on , the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded the area of low pressure to a depression again, this time giving it the designation "BOB 05", as the system had now entered the Bay of Bengal. On , the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) designated the system as Tropical Cyclone 05B. Early on November 6, the IMD upgraded Depression BOB 05 to a deep depression. Later, the deep depression strengthened further, prompting the IMD to upgrade it to a cyclonic storm, and was named "Jal". The storm continued to grow and became a severe cyclonic storm by . Soon afterward, it was upgraded to a Category 1 Tropical Cyclone by the JTWC. On , Jal started weakening. Soon afterward, the IMD reported that Jal weakened into a Cyclonic Storm. Later that day, the JTWC downgraded Jal into a Tropical storm. Late on the same day, the IMD reported that the storm weakened into a Deep Depression. As a deep depression, the system made landfall at Chennai, a few hours later. The system continued to weaken and became a depression by early hours of . The depression continued to weaken until it dissipated into a remnant low on the same day. While on that very same day the IMD said that there is a possibility of re-strengthening of Jal's remnants over north east