Nor’wester Rain To Lash Odisha Till May 4

Bhubaneswar: Nor’wester rain will continue to lash most parts of Odisha till May 4, a bulletin issued by Bhubaneswar Regional Centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.

“Thunder squalls and heavy rainfall are likely to occur at isolated places over parts of eastern India, including Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar and north-eastern states, during the next two to three days under the influence of a strong low level convergence, moisture incursion and presence of jet speed winds in upper levels,” the Met department stated.

The weatherman has also issued thunderstorm and lightning warning for 11 districts -Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Angul, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Cuttack, Khurda, Nayagarh and Ganjam.

Nor’wester accompanied with hail, rain and wind speed reaching 60-70 kmph has been forecast for Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Kendrapara between 6 pm and 10 pm.

Meanwhile, a person died and seven members of a family sustained injuries in separate lightning incidents on Monday.