Tag: Bay Of Bengal

Bhubaneswar: With the festival season being hardly a week away, all eyes are up on the skies and the question that rakes up one’s mind is will Odisha witness the autumn or rainy or stormy days during the Durga Puja festivities this year? Reading the mood of weather gods looks more pertinent as the Arabian […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Regional Meteorological Centre on Monday predicting heavy rainfall in several parts of Odisha from October 23, it seems the pre-diwali rain may douse the fest spirits to some extent. Director of Regional Meteorological Centre, HR Biswas informed that a cyclonic circulation lies over southwest Bay of Bengal off Tamil Nadu Coast. And […]

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rainfall across Odisha, which has been caused by a well-marked low pressure over the Bay of Bengal, is likely to continue for the next 24 hours with the regional Meteorological department issuing warnings for different districts of the State. Bhubaneswar Met Centre Director HR Biswas informed that rainfall activity is likely to continue […]

Puri: Travelling from Port Blair to Neil Island in Bay of Bengal in a fishing boat, a man of Andaman and Nicobar Islands who lost direction due to a cyclonic storm, managed to survive without adequate food and water for nearly 21 days before being washed away to Odisha coast. The survivor Amit Khujur was […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar islands is now out of danger, the impact of Cyclone Bulbul is likely to be seen in coastal Odisha and West Bengal, informed National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) DG, SN Pradhan on Thursday. “We have deployed 17 teams each in Odisha and West Bengal, especially […]

Bhubaneswar: A low pressure area formed over South-Andaman Sea and adjoining South-East Bay of Bengal is likely to cause rain coupled with thundershower in parts of Odisha in the next five days, predicted Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre. Director of Bhubaneswar Met Centre, HR Biswas said that thunderstorm activities will increase till 8:30 am today in some […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued a bulletin forecasting intensification of a presently developing low-pressure system into a cyclone by May 16 evening. “A low-pressure area has formed over South-East Bay of Bengal and adjoining South Andaman Sea in the morning of today, May 13. It is very likely to concentrate […]

Bhubaneswar: The deep depression system over southeast Bay of Bengal (BoB) turned into a tropical cyclone Amphan (UM-PUN), the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed in its latest bulletin. As per the IMD bulletin, “The deep depression over SE- Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood remained practically stationary during past 6 hours and rapidly intensified into a […]

New Delhi: A total of 41 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been deployed in West Bengal and Odisha to deal with any emergency situation arising out of cyclone ‘Amphan’, NDRF chief S N Pradhan said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference here, Pradhan said cyclone Amphan is a second disaster coming in the […]

Bhubaneswar: A low pressure area has formed over west-central Bay of Bengal under the influence of a cyclonic circulation, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday. The associated circulation extends up to mid-tropospheric level and it is likely to move west-northwest wards and become well marked during the next 48 hours. Moreover, the southwest Monsoon […]

Bhubaneswar: People in Odisha will get relief from the prevailing hot and humid conditions as India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued heavy rainfall alert for the State predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall in the next five days in several districts of Odisha. A cyclonic circulation lays centered over Gangetic West Bengal an adjoining Bangladesh […]

Bhubaneswar: Many parts of Odisha are likely to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall and thundershowers in the next 24 hours under the influence of the low pressure formed over the Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Regional Centre in Bhubaneswar said on Wednesday. In view of the same, orange warning has been […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Revenue Minister Sudam Marndi on Thursday said the low pressure-induced rain will help farmers of the State in their agricultural activities which has been badly hit due to deficit in the monsoon season this year. India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Regional Centre in Bhubaneswar predicted that Odisha will experience heavy rainfall in the […]

Bhubaneswar: With another low pressure brewing over the Bay of Bengal, India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday issued heavy rainfall alert for Odisha for the next 24 hours. As per the latest weather bulletin, light to moderate rainfall is likely to occur in several districts including Southern Odisha in the next 24 hours. Yellow warning […]

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for two districts of Odisha – Malkangiri and Koraput in the wake of heavy rainfall due to formation of a low-pressure area (LOPAR) over North-West Bay of Bengal. Reportedly, this is the third instance of heavy showers pounding Odisha under […]