Bhubaneswar, Mar 18: A hail storm accompanied with rain & wind speed up to 05 KTS has occurred over M.O Jharsuguda at 1845 hrs. IST on 17.03.2017 and lasted for 05 minutes. Rainfall has occurred at one or two places over Odisha. Chief amount of rainfall recorded in cms are Kashinagar (dist Gajapati) 3, R.udaigiri (dist Gajapati) 1, Sundargarh (dist Sundargarh) 1. Maximum temperatures observed no large change and were normal over Odisha. Minimum temperatures markedly rose over North Interior Odisha, appreciably rose over North Coastal Odisha and observed no large change over South Odisha. They were above normal over North Coastal Odisha and normal over rest of Odisha.
Having a clear sky with rains likely to occur. Odisha’s capital city is likely to experience in the next 24 hours a maximum and minimum temperature of 34 degree Celsius and 23 degree Celsius respectively on Sunday.
The relative humidity will be 92 percent at its maximum and 43 percent at its minimum, as said by the MeT. On Sunday and Tuesday, rains along with thunder squall and hail storms to occur in Coastal Odisha with a wind speed likely to reach 50-60 Kmph and weather to be dry over rest Interior Odisha. On Monday, rains to occur in Odisha with a wind speed to reach 50-6- Kmph accompanied with hail storms and thunder squall. On Wednesday and Thursday, weather to be dry over Odisha. As per the weather forecasters, there will be rainfall in isolated places of Odisha.
For the farmers, light rainfall to occur at one or two places of Coastal Odisha and weather to dry over Interior Odisha without any warnings.
The highest maximum temperature of 37.00C was recorded at Bolangir and the lowest minimum temperature of 13.00C was recorded at Sundergarh in the plains of Odisha.
