IMD Issues Orange Warning For Seven Odisha Districts

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued heavy to very heavy rainfall warning for seven coastal districts of Odisha in the next 12 hours.

In a mid-day bulletin, the IMD said that under the influence of a cyclonic circulation over south Andhra Pradesh and neighbourhood and monsoon trough above the cyclonic circulation stretching from south-west Madhya Pradesh across Vidarbha, there will be heavy to very heavy rainfall in the coastal belts and heavy rainfall in the interior region of the state in the next 12 hours. It will continue till September 27.

Going by the intensity of rainfall, IMD has issued orange and yellow warning for the following districts.

September 25
(Orange warning)
Heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Cuttack, Khurda, Puri, Bhadrak and Ganjam.

(Yellow warning)
Heavy rainfall at isolated places over the districts of Jajpur, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Nayagarh, Keonjhar, Kandhamal, Boudh and Dhenkanal.

September 26
(Yellow warning)
Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Bargarh and Gajapati.

September 27
(Yellow warning)
Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Balasore.

Meanwhile, the rainfall recorded in the last 24 hours till 5.30 pm on Tuesday was highest in Puri (63.6 mm) followed by Bhubaneswar (58.2 mm), Balasore (48.5), Chandbali (18.5), Cuttack (43.8), Paradip (29), Gopalpur (54.4), Baripada (27), Jharsuguda (30.4), Keonjhar (31.5), Hirakud (27.5), Koraput (26), Phulbani (29.8) and Sambalpur (15.6).