Bhubaneswar: With severe cyclonic storm ‘Dana’ rolling towards the Odisha coast, the regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) sounded orange warning for six districts of Odisha, including twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, till 7.30 pm on Thursday.
Moderate to rain/thundershower with one or two spells of intense rain and surface wind speed reaching 35-40 kmph may occur in some parts of Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack (including Cuttack city), Khurda (including Bhubaneswar) and Puri districts.
People have been advised to keep a watch on the weather and accordingly move to safer places.
The severe cyclonic storm was about about 150 km southeast of Paradip (Odisha), 180 km south-southeast of Dhamara (Odisha) and 250 km south of Sagar Island (West Bengal) at 2.30 pm. It is expected to move north-northwestwards and cross north Odisha and West Bengal coasts between Puri and Sagar Island close to Bhitarkanika and Dhamra (Odisha) during midnight and Friday morning with a wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting 120 kmph.
Light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy rainfall (≥ 21 cm) at isolated places may occur in Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsingpur Keonjhar, Jajpur, Cuttack and Dhenkanal, Khurda and Puri districts on October 24-25, the IMD added.
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