Bhubaneswar: June 12: Yesterday’s Low Pressure Area over Northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Odisha & Gangetic West Bengal coasts now lies over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal areas of West Bengal and North Odisha.
Associated cyclonic circulation extends upto mid-tropospheric levels tilting southwestwards with height. It is likely to become more marked and move west-northwestwards across Odisha, Jharkhand and North Chhattisgarh during next 2-3 days.
Southwest Monsoon has further advanced today, 12th June, 2021 into some more parts of Odisha. Today it covered Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak and Balasore and remaining parts of Puri, most parts of Nayagarh and Khurda and some parts of Cuttack, Jajpur and Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha.
Conditions are favorable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon into remaining parts of Odisha during next 24 hours.
As informed by Met Centre, heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at isolated places over the districts of Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore and Kendrapada. Orange warning was issued for these districts.
Also, Yellow warning was issued for Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Khordha, Puri, Angul, Deogarh,
Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Koraput and Nawarangpur district as Heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at isolated places. (Source: Met Centre)
