Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) regional center here on Friday predicted heavy rainfall in many places in Odisha from today. The weather office has also issued a yellow alert for heavy downpours in 17 districts of the state.
According to the IMD, heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at one or two places in Jagatsinghpur, Puri, and Ganjam districts, while heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at one or two places in Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Khurda, Nayagarh, Gajapati, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Deogarh, and Kandhamal districts.
“Light to moderate rains are expected in most parts of the state for the next 4 to 5 days with heavy to very heavy rains expected in some districts. Information has been issued to the farmer brothers to start farming with the aim of starting the monsoon,” the IMD tweeted today.
Several parts of the state have been receiving pre-monsoon rain from June 21. The amount of rainfall, drop in temperature, and direction of wind have increased the chances of the monsoon advancing to more regions of Odisha. The southwest monsoon has already entered Odisha and touched some places of the southern and western parts of the state.
Pre-monsoon rains are expected in many parts of the state. In the last 36 hours, it has been raining incessantly in some places of the state. Heavy to very heavy rain is likely to occur in many places from today onwards. In view of this, the weather center has issued a yellow warning for various districts for the next three days.
Though there is no heatwave alert for coastal and interior Odisha, a heatwave warning will remain in force for several parts of western Odisha, the IMD said.
