HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY TO LASH SEVERAL PARTS OF ODISHA TODAY

Bhubaneswar(01/08/2023): Several parts of Odisha are likely to experience heavy rainfall today under the impact of a depression formed over the Bay of Bengal. “The depression is likely to intensify further into a Deep Depression and move northwestwards and cross Bangladesh coast near Khepupara around evening of today.

Thereafter, it is very likely to move towards west-northwestwards across Gangetic West Bengal during subsequent 24 hours,” informed by the India Meteorological Department's Bhubaneswar Regional Centre. Heavy to very heavy rainfall very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Angul, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Deogarh, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Boudh, Sundargarh, Cuttack and Balasore.