Low Pressure: IMD Issues Red Alert For Various Districts Of Odisha For Next Two Days

Bhubaneswar: Due to the Low Pressure area over North Bay of Bengal and its further intensification, many districts of Odisha are getting incessant rains for the last 24 hours. The Low Pressure is very likely to move west-northwestwards and become well marked during the next 12 hours and concentrate into a depression during the subsequent 24 hours. The system is likely to bring heavy to very heavy rains to the state in the next two days. The Indian Meteorological Department has issued Red Alert for seven districts of Odisha till 8.30 am tomorrow.

The IMD has said heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) at a few places with isolated extremely heavy falls (> 20cm) very likely to occur over the districts of Puri, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Dhenkanal, Jajpur and Bhadrak till 8.30 am tomorrow. Likewise, Nuapada, Bolangir, Kalahandi, Sonepur, Boudh, Bargarh, Angul, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda and Deogarh districts will get heavy to very rainfall from 8.30 am on 14th August to 8.3 am on 15th August.

While many places received heavy to very rains today, Sambalpur, Hirakud, Bargarh, Jagatsinghpur, and Puri have received 129.2 mm, 80.7 mm, 79.6 mm, 75.8 mm, and 60.9 mm respectively from morning 8.30 am to evening 5.30 am.