Yellow Alert For 3 Days, Intensity Of Rain To Increase In Odisha Again From Sept 18

Bhubaneswar: While heavy rainfall will continue to lash several districts of Odisha for the next two days, the intensity of spells will again increase from September 18 after a brief lull under the influence of a fresh cyclonic circulation over north Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Tuesday.

Yellow warning for heavy rainfall has been issued for Sundargarh, Keonjhar Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati till 8.30 am on Wednesday (September 14). Heavy rainfall is also likely to occur at one or two places in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Balasore in the subsequent 24 hours. Thunderstorm with lightning alert has also been issued for one or two places in Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Angul, Dhenkanal, Boudh, Kandhamal, Nayagarh, Cuttack and Ganjam during this period.

Yellow alert for thunderstorm with lightning is also likely at one or two places in Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Deogarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Kendrapada on September 15.

While thundershower will continue in the state for three days, the intensity will rain will increase again from September 18, the MeT office said.

Due to strong monsoon flow, squally weather with gusty surface wind speed reaching 40 to 50 kmph is likely along and off Odisha coast and adjoining north-west Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours, it added.