The low pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood has become well-marked over the northwest Bay off north Odisha and West Bengal coasts, said the Regional Office of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) here on Friday.
Under the influence of the system, widespread light to moderate rainfall with heavy to very heavy rainfall activity is likely to occur at several parts of the State in the next 24 hours.
The IMD has also issued “Orange Warning” for heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy rainfall to occur at isolated parts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Deogarh,Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Subarnapur, Bargarh, Balangir and Nuapada districts in the next 24 hours.
“The southwest monsoon has been active over Odisha. Several parts of the State including north coastal Odisha, Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal, Puri, Subarnapur, Boudh, Balangir and Kalahandi received heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours,” said the weather office.