Bhubaneswar: As Cyclone Dana batters Odisha, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted flash floods in 16 districts of the state due to heavy rainfall.
In its update, the IMD indicated that low to moderate flash floods are expected in watershed areas of the state over the next 24 hours. The districts anticipated to experience flash floods include Angul, Balasore, Boudh, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Gajapati, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kandhamal, Keonjhar, Khurda, Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh, and Puri.
Meanwhile, the IMD, in a post on X, said, “The cyclonic storm Dana moved north-northwestwards at a speed of 10 kmph and lay centered near latitude 21.25° n and longitude 86.70°e at 0930 hrs ist today, the 25th October, over north coastal Odisha, about 30 km northeast of Bhadrak and 50 km north-northwest of Dhamara. It will likely move northwestwards across north Odisha and weaken gradually into a deep depression during the next 06 hours.”
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams on Friday started the restoration work by removing uprooted trees from the roads in Odisha’s coastal district even though the landfall process of severe cyclonic storm Dana still continues.
