Odisha is likely to witness enhanced rainfall activity from Monday. Several districts in the state may experience heavy rainfall accompanied by thunder and lightning, said the India Meteorological Department.
Taking to Twitter, the Regional Met Centre of the IMD in Bhubaneswar today said that heavy rainfall will continue to lash one or two places in several districts of Odisha in the next 4 to 5 days.
The weather agency in its evening bulletin dated September 4 had issued Yellow Alert for 23 districts with forecast of thunderstorm activities. According to the IMD, thunderstorms with lightning very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Angul, Dhenkanal, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Jajpur, Cuttack, Khurda, Puri and Jagatsinghpur.
Similarly, the Yellow Alert has also been issued for the districts of Bhadrak, Kendrapara Nayagarh, Boudh, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Sonepur, Nawarangpur, Malkangiri, Koraput, Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Balasore for the next 24 hours.
The Met office has predicted heavy rainfall for one or two places over the districts of Ganjam, Gajapati, Kandhamal, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada.
According to IMD, the western end of the monsoon trough at mean sea level continues to pass through Bhatinda, Rohtak, Shahjahanpur and the eastern end runs along the foothills of the Himalayas. This apart the north-south trough persists from southeast Madhya Pradesh to Comorin area across Marathwada, Madhya Maharashtra and interior Karnataka at 0.9 km above mean sea level.