Thunderstorm & Lightning Alert For Seven Odisha Districts Today

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a yellow warning for thunderstorm and lightning over seven districts of Odisha on Sunday. It also said that rainfall will increase in the state in the next 72 hours.

“Under the influence of a cyclonic circulation and a trough line, thunderstorm with lightning will occur at one or two places over the districts of Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Kalahandi, Kandhamal and Nuapada. Light to moderate rain or thundershower will occur at one or two places over the districts of Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Nuapada, Balangir, Boudh, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Angul, Nayagarh, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj on Sunday,” the mid-day weather bulletin said.

It also said that there will be light rainfall at one or two places in the districts of Kandhamal, Nayagarh, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Angul, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Balasore on Monday and Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Koraput and Mayurbhanj on Tuesday.

The rainfall activity will increase in the subsequent 24 hours with thunderstorm along with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30 to 40 kmph at one or two places over the districts of Bargarh, Balangir, Sonepur, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Boudh and Kandhamal on Wednesday.

On Thursday, similar weather condition will prevail in Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal, Nayagarh, Khurda, Ganjam, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Angul, Sonepur, Boudh, Cuttack, Kalahandi, Rayagada and Gajapati districts.

The bulletin, however, added that despite the rain, there will be no major change in the day temperature in Odisha.

Though there was no rainfall in the state except Sundargarh (23 mm) and Jharsuguda (10.8 mm) in the last 24 hours till 8.30 am on Sunday, the day temperature hovered at 34 degree Celsius and above with highest temperature in Bhawnipatna (36) followed by Cuttack (34), Bhubaneswar (34.9), Angul (34.1), Talcher (34.2), Koraput (34), Titlagarh (35), Malkangiri (35.6), Sonepur (35), Nayagarh (34.5), Boudh (34) and Paralakhemundi (35.1).

OB Bureau

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