The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in several districts of Odisha in the next five days as a low-pressure is likely to form over North Bay of Bengal soon. IMD issued heavy rainfall alert in these places next 5 days.
A fresh spell of torrential rain over the next two days, owing to with the formation of a new low pressure area on Thursday, may exacerbate the flood situation in Odisha. The weather system, third in two weeks, took shape over the northeast Bay of Bengal in the morning and is set to concentrate into a well-marked low pressure, the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre said.
It is expected to intensify into a depression over the northern Bay on Friday morning and move northwestwards across the Gangetic West Bengal, north Odisha and Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand, according to a bulletin. In a notification, the India Meteorological Department said that a cyclonic circulation lies over south Myanmar and neighbourhood and extends upto 5.8 km above mean sea level.
Under its influence, a low-pressure area is likely to form over North Bay of Bengal around August 19, it added. The IMD also issued a yellow warning of heavy rainfall in 20 districts and an orange alert of very heavy rains in 17 districts of the state.
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“Light to moderate rain very likely to occur at most places over districts of the state in next 5 days. Heavy to very heavy rainfall very likely to occur over Nuapada, Bolangir, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Sonepur, Kalahandi districts,” said IMD, Bhubaneswar.
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