Bhubaneswar: A low-pressure area is likely to form over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-west Bengal coasts during the next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Wednesday.
“The upper air cyclonic circulation over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-west Bengal coasts persists and under its influence, a low-pressure area is likely to form over the same region during the next 24 hours.”
The system is likely to trigger heavy to very heavy rain in Odisha till June 28.
The weather agency has issued a red warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorm/lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph for one or two places in Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts on Wednesday (June 25).
Very heavy rain along with thunderstorm/lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph may also occur at one or two places in Balasore, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Deogarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, and Bhadrak. There is also a warning for heavy rain and thunderstorm/lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph for one or two places in Bargarh, Sonepur, Boudh, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Gajapati, and Ganjam. Thunderstorm/lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph may also occur at one or two places in Puri and Khurda during the day.
The intensity of rain is likely to gradually decrease thereafter.
On June 26, heavy to very heavy rainfall along with thunderstorm/lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph may continue at one or two places in Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj. Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorm/lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph is also likely at one or two places in Bargarh, Deogarh, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Angul and Dhenkanal. Thunderstorm/lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph may also occur at one or two places in Balasore, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam and Gajapati districts.
Heavy rain may occur at one or two places in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Rayagada, Gajapati, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Jharsuguda and Kandhamal on June 27 and Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Sambalpur, and Bargarh on June 28.
The IMD has also warned of squally weather with wind speed 35-45 kmph gusting to 55 kmph along & off Odisha coasts on June 25-26 when sea condition is likely to be rough to very rough. Fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea along and off Odisha coast during this period.