Heavy Rain Warning In Flood-Hit Balasore, These Odisha Districts On Aug 23-24; Check Forecast

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD)’s regional centre here has forecast heavy rainfall in Odisha’s Balasore, which has been severely affected by the floods in Subarnarekha river, and several other districts of the state on Tuesday-Wednesday and issued a yellow warning. Thereafter, the intensity of rainfall will subside over the state.

Forecast for next five days

Aug 23 (Till 8.30 am)

Yellow warning: Thunderstorm with lightning very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal and Kalahandi.

Light to moderate rain or thundershower very likely to occur at a few places over the districts of Odisha.

Aug 23 (8.30 am) to Aug 24 (8.30 am)

Yellow warning

* Heavy rainfall very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj.

* Thunderstorm with lightning very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj Khurda, Puri, Nayagarh, Ganjam and Kandhamal.

Light to moderate rain or thundershower very likely to occur at most places over the districts of north coastal Odisha and many places over the rest districts of Odisha.

Aug 24 (8.30 am) to Aug 25 (8.30 am)

Yellow warning

* Heavy rainfall very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Balangir, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore and Bhadrak.

* Thunderstorm with lightning very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Sonepur, Boudh, Nuapada, Balangir, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Koraput and Malkangiri.

Light to moderate rain or thundershower very likely to occur at many places over the districts of Odisha.

Aug 25 (8.30 am) to Aug 26 (8.30 am)

Light to moderate rain or thundershower very likely to occur at many places over the districts of Odisha.

Aug 26 (8.30 am) to Aug 27 (8.30 am)

Light to moderate rain or thundershower very likely to occur at many places over the districts of south interior Odisha and at a few places over the rest districts of Odisha.

Floods in the Subarnarekha river have affected nearly 156 villages in 83 panchayats under six blocks of Balasore district. Around 40,000 people from the affected villages have been shifted to safer locations.

“Though Subarnarekha is still flowing above the danger mark, the water level has remained stable for the last eight hours,” state Water Resources Minister Tukuni Sahu told reporters on Monday.

Sahu said the water level in almost all the rivers in the state had dropped except Subarnarekha, which is in spate following the release of excess water from Galudihi barrage in Jharkhand after heavy downpour triggered by the depression.