Vikash Sharma

A Low Pressure Area has formed over northeast and adjoining areas of eastcentral Bay of Bengal,Bangladesh-Myanmar coasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.

As per IMD’s Regional Centre in Bhubaneswar, the system is likely to move west-northwestwards and become more marked during the next 12 hours.

The Met department further said that the well-marked low pressure will concentrate into Depression during the subsequent 24 hours.

It is pertinent to mention here that the previous low pressure area and subsequent depression had triggered heavy rainfall in both upper and lower catchment areas, leading to flood in Mahanadi basin.

Warnings:

Rainfall:

August 18: Rainfall at most places with heavy at isolated places is very likely over coastal areas of North Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal.

August 19: Rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely over North Odisha. Rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places over South Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal and heavy rainfall at isolated places over Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and East Madhya Pradesh.

August 20: Rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at few places and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely over North Chattisgarh and East Madhya Pradesh. Rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy rainfall at few places over Northwest Odisha, Jharkhand and Vidarbha. Rainfall at most places with heavy rainfall isolated places over remaining parts of Odisha, south Chhattisgarh and West Madhya Pradesh.

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