The India Meteorological Division (IMD) on Sunday issued a warning for heavy rainfall throughout numerous elements of Odisha over the subsequent few days as a result of formation of a low-pressure space within the Bay of Bengal.
The low-pressure space shaped over the Bay of Bengal off northern Andhra Pradesh and southern Odisha coasts at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday.
“Below the affect of the higher air cyclonic circulation over west central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal off north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha coasts, a low-pressure space has shaped over the identical area at 8.30 hrs IST of right now, seventeenth August 2025,” knowledgeable the IMD in its bulletin on Sunday.
The IMD additional predicted that the cyclonic circulation is more likely to focus right into a melancholy throughout subsequent 24-hours and cross south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts round morning on August 19.
The IMD predicted that the low-pressure system is anticipated to convey heavy rainfall to a number of areas of the state, significantly within the southern area.
It issued orange warning predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall together with thunderstorm to happen at one or two locations over the southern Odisha districts, Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Gajapati, on Sunday.
Equally, yellow warning of heavy rainfall has been issued by the company on Sunday for Ganjam, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Sonepur, Boudh, Nuapada, Bolangir, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur districts.
The IMD has issued a crimson warning alerting about extraordinarily heavy rain fall at one or two locations over the districts of Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur on Monday.
A number of districts throughout Odisha are more likely to face rainfall on the subsequent three days as a result of low-pressure space shaped on Sunday.
The IMD has additionally anticipated that districts corresponding to Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Gajapati, Nabarangpur, and Kalahandi might expertise harm to plantations, horticultural crops, and standing crops.
Moreover, kutcha homes, partitions, and huts may very well be affected, together with the potential for street flooding, waterlogging in low-lying areas, and occurrences of localised landslides, mudslides, land or mud slips, and sinking of land or mud.
