Rivers in Odisha likely to swell as IMD predicts heavy to very heavy rainfall

Rain Alert…

On Wednesday, The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall over East India today under the influence of a cyclonic circulation that lies over the northeast Bay of Bengal and neighborhood extending up to middle tropospheric levels. 

The well-marked low pressure area over East Rajasthan and adjoining northwest Madhya Pradesh is likely to bring widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy spells over southwest Rajasthan today. 

According to the Met department, fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy showers is very likely over East Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal during the next 24 hours.

We have retained all rescue and relief teams at their place of deployment in the four flood-hit blocks - Baliapal, Bhograi, Basta and Jaleswar - in view of the IMD’s forecast of very heavy rainfall,” Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde, the district collector of Balasore, was quoted as saying by PTI.

The weather forecasting agency has predicted fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy falls and thunderstorms over Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours and over Himachal Pradesh during the next two days.

Widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy falls is very likely over coastal and south interior Karnataka on Wednesday, over Tamil Nadu till August 26 and over Kerala and Mahe till August 27.