Thunderstorm & Rain May Pull Mercury Down In Odisha For 3 Days Amid Heatwave Warning

Bhubaneswar: Odisha will continue to reel under spells of heatwave with the India Meteorological Department on Sunday issuing orange warning for two days.

Some parts of the state are also likely to experience thunderstorm with lightning accompanied by gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph during this period.

According to the weather agency, the day temperature is expected to remain 40°C or above at many places in the state and 3-5°C above normal in some districts during the next 24 hours due to prevailing northwesterly/westerly dry air and high solar insolation. The mercury may gradually fall by 2-3°C during the subsequent 3 days and again rise by 2-3°C thereafter at many places in the state.

APRIL 21

Orange Warning

Severe heatwave conditions may prevail at one or two places in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Boudh, Nuapada.

Heatwave conditions are also likely at a few places over the districts of Sundargarh, Bargarh, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Sonepur, Balangir, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Angul, Khurda, and Cuttack.

Yellow Warning

Hot and humid weather condition may prevail at one or two places in Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati.

Thunderstorm with lightning accompanied by gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph may also occur at a few places in Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Sonepur, Boudh, Nuapada, Balangir, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkangiri and at one or two places in Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Angul, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Keonjhar, and Mayurbhanj.

APRIL 22

Orange Warning

Heatwave conditions may prevail at a few places in Balangir, Sonepur, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Angul, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal, Nuapada, Boudh, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, and Nayagarh.

Yellow Warning

Hot and humid weather condition is also likely at one or two places in Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, and Gajapati.

Thunderstorm with lightning accompanied by gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph may also occur at one or two places in Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Sonepur, Boudh, Nuapada, Balangir, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkangiri, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, and Sambalpur.

APRIL 23

Yellow Warning

Hot and humid weather condition may prevail at one or two places in Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Angul, Puri, Khurda, and Boudh.

Thunderstorm with lightning is also likely at one or two places in Ganjam, Gajapati, Sonepur, Boudh, Nuapada, Balangir, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Koraput, and Malkangiri.

APRIL 24

Yellow Warning

Hot and humid weather condition may prevail at one or two places in Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Angul, Puri, Khurda, and Boudh.

APRIL 25

Yellow Warning

Heatwave condition may prevail at one or two places in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Balasore, Bhadrak, and Jajpur.

The MeT office has also advised people to take precautionary measure while going outside during day time between 11 am and 3 pm.

Light to moderate rain may also continue at isolated places till April 25. Dry weather will prevail thereafter, it added.

According to Centre for Environment and Climate (CEC) of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), development of anticyclone in the Bay of Bengal may bring some respite from the extreme heatwave conditions prevailing across Odisha from April 21.

There was also a probability of occurrence of norwester accompanied by rain and thunder on the evening of April 21 and also the next day in the coastal and southern districts of Odisha. However, the day temperature will hover between 38 degree Celsius and 41 degree Celsius in the interior districts and between 37 degree Celsius and 39 degree Celsius in the coastal belt. Some of the stations could record less than 36 degree Celsius also, he said.

The day temperature may shoot up subsequently due to disappearance of anti-cyclone and absence of sea breeze from April 26 which will continue till April 30 with day temperature rising to 44 or 45 degree Celsius from April 28, he added.