Bhubaneswar, April 3: The Met office forecast hotter days ahead in Odisha predicting similar situation in the next few days as citizen in the State capital and elsewhere sweated the day out.
Meteorological Centre said temperature will rise to above 40 degree Celsius in most places in interior and western Odisha in the next 24 hours. Compared to these places while in the coastal areas the weather will be slightly pleasant.
Director Sarat Chadra Sahoo said that temperature in coastal Odisha had gone up sharply on Friday with less wind speed while it droped by about two to three degrees today.
Sahu said a cyclonic circulation had formed over the north Gangetic West Bengal where a trough line is stretched up to south of Chhattisgarh through interior Odisha.
Under its influence, the wind flow in coastal Odisha is from south-west direction while the wind flow is from north-west and west direction in interior Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
As a result, the hot wind is not able to penetrate into the coastal region due to anti-cyclonic flow from south Andhra Pradesh from where the wind, carrying water vapours from the sea, enters Odisha through Rayalseema via north Andhra Pradesh, he pointed out.
Sahu also said that there is a possibility of Norwester at one or two places in Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Kandhamal districts this afternoon. “Besides, as the wind is flowing at a lower level in the atmosphere, there is a possibility of hail storm in these places,” he added.
