Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) sounded thunderstorm and lightning warning for 13 districts of Odisha on Saturday.
A release by the IMD’s Metrological Centre, Bhubaneswar, said that thunderstorm and lightning are likely to occur in Nuapada, Balangir, Bargarh, Sonepur, Boudh, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Keonjhar, Khurda, Dhenkanal, Angul and Mayurbhanj districts on Saturday.
People in these districts have been advised to stay indoors between 11 am and 1 pm.
Apart from the 13 districts, IMD has also sounded rain and thundershower alert for Khurda, Puri, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati and Dhenkanal districts and asked the people not to move outside their houses till 3.15 pm on Saturday.
There would be heavy rainfall in the South Odisha districts of Kalahandi, Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur and Kandhamal from August 11 due to the formation of a cyclonic circulation over the west-central Bay of Bengal off the south coast of Andhra Pradesh, the release further said.
Besides, a low-pressure to be formed over the north-west Bay of Bengal on August 13, would trigger heavy rainfall in the north and north coastal districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Balasore, Bhadrak and Sundargarh, including the central coastal districts of Kendrapara, Cuttack, Puri, Jagatsinghpur and Jajpur with isolated extremely heavy rainfall from August 12 to 14, it added.
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