Low Pressure Area: Nowcast Alert For These Odisha Districts; IMD Issues Landslide Warning

Bhubaneswar: Light to moderate rain/thundershower very likely to occur over parts of Khurda (including Bhubaneswar), Jajpur, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Ganjam, Gajapati, Nayagarh, Deogarh, Sundargarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Kandhamal, Koraput, Rayagada, Boudh and Cuttack (including Cuttack city) districts during the next three hours, according to a nowcast bulletin issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD)’s regional centre in Bhubaneswar at 4.15 pm on Friday.

A low pressure area is likely to form over northwest and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal around August 7.

“Under the influence of gradual strengthening of monsoon flow and the anticipated low pressure area, rainfall activity very likely to increase gradually from today, August 5, and widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls at one or two places likely to occur during August 6 to 10 over the districts of Odisha,” the IMD said in a special bulletin on Friday.

Forecast for next five days

Aug 6 (Till 8.30 am)

Yellow warning: Heavy rainfall (7 to 11cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Kendrapada and Bhadrak.

Aug 6 (8.30 am) to Aug 7 (8.30 am)

Yellow warning: Heavy rainfall (7 to 11 cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Khordha, Nayagarh, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Kandhamal, Boudh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Sonepur, Bargarh, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapada.

Aug 7 (8.30 am) to Aug 8 (8.30 am)

Orange warning: Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Ganjam, Gajapati and Puri.

Impact: Possibility of waterlogging in low lying areas and landslides/mudslides in vulnerable hilly areas.

Yellow warning: Heavy rainfall (7 to 11 cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Nuapada, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Boudh, Nayagarh, Khordha and Jagatsinghpur.

Aug 8 (8.30 am) to Aug 9 (8.30 am)

Orange warning: Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Gajapati, Ganjam, Puri, Khordha, Nayagarh, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Kandhamal, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack with extremely heavy rainfall (>20cm) at isolated places over the districts of Ganjam, Puri, Khurda and Jagatsinghpur.

Impact:

* It may trigger landslides/mudslides in vulnerable hilly areas.

* Waterlogging in low lying areas, occasional reduction of visibility causing traffic congestion in urban areas and some damages to kutcha roads and vulnerable kutcha houses.

* Keep arrangement for drainage of excess water.

Yellow warning: Heavy rainfall (7 to 11 cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Boudh, Balangir, Sonepur, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Kendrapada and Bhadrak.

Aug 9 (8.30 am) to Aug 10 (8.30 am)

Orange warning: Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Bargarh, Balangir, Sonepur, Boudh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Kalahandi, Sambalpur, Nuapada, Kandhamal, Jajpur, Cuttack with extremely heavy rainfall (>20cm) at isolated places over the districts of Bargarh, Sonepur and Balangir.

Impact:

* It may trigger landslides/mudslides in vulnerable hilly areas.

* Waterlogging in low lying areas, occasional reduction of visibility causing traffic congestion in urban areas and some damages to kutcha roads and vulnerable kutcha houses.

* Keep arrangement for drainage of excess water.

Yellow warning: Heavy rainfall (7 to 11 cm) very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Khordha, Puri, Nayagarh, Gajapati, Ganjam, Rayagada, Koraput, Nabarangpur and Malkangiri.