Heavy Rain To Lash Odisha For Next Two Days; Orange, Yellow Warnings Issued

Bhubaneswar, Mar 19: Heavy rains, accompanied by thunderstorms with lightning, are likely to lash several districts in Odisha over the next two days, informed the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Regional Centre, Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.

The IMD’s weather forecast for Odisha during next two days is as follows:

Day 1 (Valid Upto 8.30 AM of May 20)

Orange Warning (Be Prepared)

Thunderstorm with lightning, and gusty surface wind speed reaching 50-60 kmph and hail are very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Angul, Dhenkanal, and Jajpur. Also hail is likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Nayagarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Balangir, Sonepur, and Boudh.

Also thunderstorms with lightning and heavy rainfall (7cm to 11cm) are very likely at one or two places over the districts of Cuttack, Nayagarh, Kandhamal,Dhenkanal, and Jajpur.

Yellow Warning(To be updated)
Thunderstorm with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph are very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur,Khordha, Puri, Ganjam, Nuapada, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Deogarh, and Sundargarh, and thunderstorm with lightning very likely to occur at one or two places over the rest districts of the State.

Day 2 (Valid from 8.30 AM of May 20 to 8.30 AM of May 21)

Orange Warning (Be Prepared)

Thunderstorm with lightning, and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph are very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Gajapati, Ganjam, Khordha, Nayagarh, Puri. Also heavy rainfall (7cm to 11cm) at one or two places is likely over districts of Khordha, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack and Nayagarh.

Yellow Warning(To be updated)

Thunderstorms with lightning are very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Kandhamal, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj.

People have been advised to keep watch on weather and take safe shelter during the thunderstorm activity to protect from lightning and follow traffic advisories in urban areas. Besides, farmers have been advised to use hail nets to protect vegetables and crops from hail.

Meanwhile, light to moderate rainfall has occurred at many places in the State in the last 24 hours.