Bhubaneswar: Traffic crawled in twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack and its outskirts as thick blanket of fog restricted visibility to 200-50 metres, on Sunday morning.
Dense fog also enveloped Angul and Kendrapada while shallow to moderate fog was seen in Chandbali, Paradip and Keonjhar amid the prevailing dry weather conditions, according to Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre.
Notably, the weather agency had issued yellow warning of dense fog for one or two places in Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Angul, Dhenkanal, Kendrapada, Kandhamal, Sonepur, Boudh, Jajpur, Rayagada till 8.30 this morning.
Dense fog is likely to continue for subsequent 48 hours at one or two places in Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Koraput, Rayagada, Kalahandi, Sonepur, Boudh, Sambalpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Kandhamal, and Balangir districts.
The state is also likely to experience another 2 degrees rise in the night temperature during the next 2 days with an anti-cyclone ciculation, favouring flow of warm air currents from the Bay of Bengal region. There will be no chill during next 6-7 days, the MeT office tweeted.
In the last 24 hours, Koraput at 12 degree Celsius was the only place in Odisha to report below normal (-3.1) temperature. Bhubaneswar and Cuttack recorded 22.5 and 22 degree Celsius, respectively, 3.3 and 3.7 degrees above normal.
There is also a forecast for light rain/thundershower at one or two places in Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, and Balasore on February 23.
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