India’s weather office, the IMD, has sounded the alarm for Odisha as a brewing storm heads toward the coast. A low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal has strengthened into a depression, bringing heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and gusty winds up to 50 km/h to many parts of the state over the next few days.
The depression sits over the west-central Bay of Bengal, just off the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh shores. IMD experts predict it will ramp up into a deep depression and slam into the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coasts on October 3. Specifically, the system should track northwest and hit between Gopalpur and Paradip in the early hours of that day.
Rainfall could be intense across Odisha. On October 2, expect heavy to very heavy downpours, with some spots seeing extremely heavy falls, plus lightning and winds of 40-50 km/h in coastal areas like Jagatsinghpur and Puri. That’s why IMD issued a red alert for those districts—stay vigilant.
An orange alert covers broader very heavy rain on Thursday in districts including Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jajpur, Cuttack, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Bolangir, and Dhenkanal. Another orange warning targets heavy to very heavy rain in Nabarangpur, Nuapada, and Bargarh around the same time.
This weather system promises widespread heavy rain throughout Odisha in the coming days, so the entire state should prepare. IMD urges people in red- and orange-alert areas to keep a close eye on updates and head to safer spots if needed. Fishermen should halt operations, and ships need to avoid the impacted zones to stay safe.
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