Depression Over Bay To Intensify Further Moving Towards Odisha-Bengal Coasts

Bhubaneswar: A Depression has formed over westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Sunday.

“Yesterday’s well-marked low pressure area over northwest and central Bay of Bengal concentrated into a depression and lay centered at 5.30 am over westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal, about 310 km east of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 260 km east-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha), 290 km south-southeast of Paradip (Odisha) and 410 km south of Digha (West Bengal),” according to the special bulletin.

The system is likely to move nearly northwestwards towards North Odisha-West Bengal coasts and intensify into a deep depression during the next 24 hours. Thereafter, it is expected to move west-northwestwards across North-Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand and adjoining north Chhattisgarh during the subsequent 2 days, it added.

The IMD has issued orange warning of moderate rain/thundershower with one or two intense spells of rain for Malkangiri, Koraput, Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajput till 10.30 am. Light to moderate rain/thundershower with lightning may also occur in Ganjam, Gajapati, Cuttack (including Cuttack city), Dhenkanal, Nayagarh and Khurda during this period. People have been advised to keep a watch on the weather and accordingly move to safer places to protect themselves from lightning strikes.

On Saturday, the weather agency had warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall at one or two places oin Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Malkangiri and Koraput on September 8. Heavy rain may also occur at one or two places in Kendrapada, Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Nayagarh, Kandhamal, Kalahandi and Nabarangpur.

The orange warning continues for two more days with heavy to very heavy rainfall expected in Cuttack, Khurda, Puri, Nayagarh, Boudh, Kandhamal, Ganjam, Gajapati and Kalahandi on September 9 and in Dhenkanal, Angul, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Balangir, Sonepur, Boudh, Kalahandi and Kandhamal on September 10.

Yellow warning of heavy rainfall has been issued till September 11.