Monsoon Covers Entire Odisha, Heavy Rain To Lash 22 Districts

Bhubaneswar: With the south-west monsoon covering all parts of Odisha on Sunday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued yellow warning for heavy rainfall in 22 districts.

In a mid-day bulletin, the national weather agency said a low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal areas of West Bengal and north Odisha with an associated cyclonic circulation tilting southwestwards is likely to move west­northwest across Odisha, Jharkhand and North Chhattisgarh during the next 2 to ­3 days.

Besides, a monsoon trough now runs from central Pakistan to the centre of the low-pressure area over Northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal areas of West Bengal and north Odisha across south Haryana, south Uttar Pradesh, northeast Madhya Pradesh, North Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

Under its influence, there will be heavy rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall at some places in the following districts for three days.

June 13
(Yellow warning)
Heavy to very heavy rainfall at one or two places over the districts of Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh,  Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj.

Heavy rainfall at one or two places over the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Cuttack, Bhadrak,  Balasore, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Puri and Khurda.

June 14
(Yellow warning)
Heavy to very heavy rainfall at one or two places over the districts of  Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar, Sambalpur and Deogarh.

Heavy rainfall at one or two places over the districts of Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Boudh, Angul,  Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Bargarh and  Jajpur.

June 15
(Yellow warning)
Heavy rainfall at one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Angul, Deogarh, Keonjhar and Sambalpur.

In view of the inclement weather, fishermen are advised not to venture into the deep sea along and off the Odisha coast and north Bay of Bengal adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal till June 15 as the squally weather with surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph will make the sea condition rough to very rough.