IMD Issues Rain & Thunder Warning For Five Days In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday issued a five-day yellow warning for rain and thundershower with lightning and strong wind for 14 Odisha districts from today.

The national weather agency, in a mid-day bulletin, said under the influence of a cyclonic circulation over northeast Madhya Pradesh & neighbourhood, there will be thunderstorm with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph at one or two places. Such conditions will prevail till May 5, it added.

The IMD has issued yellow warning for the following districts.

April 30 

Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam, Kandhamal. Hailstorm likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Malkangiri, Kandhamal, Gajapati.

May 1

Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam, Nabarangpur, Nuapada, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Sundargarh. Hailstorm likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Koraput, Nabarangpur and Malkangiri.

May 2

Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Angul, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Cuttack, Kandhamal, Gajapati, Boudh, Malkangiri, Deogarh and Rayagada.

May 3

Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Kandhamal. Heavy rainfall likely at one or two places over the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput and Gajapati.

May 4

Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Malkangiri, Koraput, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj. Heavy rainfall likely at one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Gajapati, Malkangiri.

Temperature forecast: The Met office stated that there will no large change in maximum temperature (day temperature) during next 2 days and it is likely to fall thereafter by 2-3 degree Celsius at many places.

Bhubaneswar will remain mostly cloudy y with possibility of
development of thunder or lightning. Maximum and minimum temperature likely to be around 39 degree C and 27 degree C respectively, the bulletin stated.