Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department has issued an orange warning for Odisha’s twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack till 5.38 pm on Wednesday.
The cities are likely to experience moderate thunderstorms along with rain, lightning and gusty wind speed 30-40 kmph under the influence of a well-marked low pressure over westcentral Bay of Bengal.
The weather agency has also warned of similar weather conditions at many places in the districts of Balangir, Bargarh, Gajapati, Ganjam, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Keonjhar, Khurda, Koraput, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, Nabarangpur, Nuapada, Puri, Rayagada, Sambalpur, Sonepur and Sundargarh till 4.24 pm.
The system is expected to continue to move north-northwestwards and concentrate into a Depression over the same region during the next 12 hours. Continuing to move further north-northwestwards, it is likely to intensify further into a deep depression and cross South Odisha- North Andhra Pradesh coasts during early morning of October 3, it added.
