Intense Cold Wave Sweeps Odisha; Temperature Drops To Single Digit In Sonepur & Daringbadi

Bhubaneswar: Most parts of Odisha came under the intense cold wave on Monday with a fall in the night temperature to 15°C and below in 13 places.

While Sonepur and Daringbadi (Kandhamal) recorded 9°C and 9.5°C respectively, the night temperature remained at 15 degrees and below in Phulbani (11.3), Koraput (13), Balangir (14), Bhawanipatna (12.8), Talcher (15), Sundargarh (15), Keonjhar (12), Jharsuguda (13.2), Baripada (12.4), Angul (10.6) and Cuttack (14.8).

Apart from this, the night temperature in the state capital came down to 16°C.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in a morning bulletin, said that a well-marked low-pressure over the south-east Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of the south Andaman Sea and the equatorial Indian Ocean is very likely to concentrate into a depression during the next 36 hours. The system is likely to intensify further and move west­northwestwards and reach near south Tamil Nadu coast around in the next 48 hours on December 2.

“As the system will have no impact on Odisha, the minimum night temperature will fall by 2-3°C in the state during next 48 hours and continue for a week till December 6 as the cold wind has started blowing from the Himalayan region,” it added.