Bhubaneswar: With the low pressure over the south Andaman Sea and adjoining the southeast Bay of Bengal most likely to intensify into a deep depression on May 8, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday issued heavy rainfall warning for six districts of Odisha in the next 48 hours.
In a mid-day bulletin, the national weather agency said low pressure is most likely to become well marked around May 7 and gradually move northwestwards and concentrate into a depression during subsequent 24 hours on May 8.
The IMD further said that though the intensification of the depression is likely to get delayed due to the pronounced diurnal variation in convection and a slight increase in vertical wind shear over the region, the rainfall activity in Odisha will increase under its influence. However, the depression will have no impact on Odisha, it added.
In view of the changing weather condition, IMD has issued yellow and orange warnings for the following districts.
May 3
(Yellow warning)
Thunderstorm with lightning at one or two places over the districts of Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Balasore, Cuttack, Puri, Rayagada, Gajapati, Kandhamal, Kalahandi and Kendrapada.
May 4
(Yellow warning)
Thunderstorm with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching up to 30-40 kmph, and hail at one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Angul, Dhenkanal, Bhadrak, Balasore, Kandhamal, Rayagada, Gajapati and Koraput.
May 5
(Orange warning)
Thunderstorm , lightning accompanied with squall speed reaching 50-60 kmph at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Sambalpur, Angul, Jajpur, Rayagada, Gajapati, Kandhamal.
Heavy rainfall at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Maurbhanj, Angul and Keonjhar.
Thunderstorm with lightning and hailstorm at one or two places over the districts of Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Kandhamal, Rayagada, Jajpur, Balasore and Bhadrak.
(Yellow warning)
Thunderstorm with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching up to 30-40 kmph over the remaining districts.
May 6
(Yellow warning)
Thunderstorm with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching up to 30-40 kmph at one or two places over the districts of Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Balasore, Rayagada, Koraput, and Kandhamal.
May 7
(Yellow warning)
Thunderstorm with lightning at one or two places over the districts of coastal Odisha, Kandhamal, Dhenkanal, Rayagada and Angul.
