Cyclone Update: IMD Issues Rainfall Warning, Shares Update On Landfall

Amid the cyclone threat looming over Odisha, the regional meteorological centre on Wednesday (Dec 1) issued red warning for heavy rainfall in several districts of the state.

As per the IMD, the Low Pressure Area over central Andaman Sea & neighbourhood still persists and is likely to concentrate into a depression by tomorrow (Dec 2).

It is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm over Central Bay of Bengal during subsequent 24 hours and is expected to reaches near north Andhra Pradesh & Odisha coasts by the morning of December 4th.

However, the place for landfall of the cyclonic storm has not been established yet. For December 4th, red warning for heavy to very heavy rainfall has been issued for Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri and Jagatsinghpur districts of Odisha.

Similarly, Yellow warning for heavy rainfall has been issued for the districts of Gajapati, Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur on December 3rd.