The Regional Meteorological Centre here on Sunday issued flash flood warning for several districts of Odisha in view of a low pressure area that formed over the northeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood.
It is likely to move west-northwestward during the next 2-3 days and become more marked over northwest Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood during next 24 hours.
ForvSeptember 20, Red Warning has been issued as heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at a few places with extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places over the districts of Jajpur, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur and Dhenkanal. Orange warning has been issued Mayurbhanj, Baleswar, Cuttack, Keonjhar, Angul, Deogarh, Sambalpur, Kalahandi, Subarnapur and Balangir with forecast of heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places and Yellow warning of heavy rainfall is for the districts of Puri, Khurda, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Koraput, and Malkangiri.
For September 21 Red warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall was issued for Bargarh, Nuapada, Balangir, Kalahandi, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, and Deogarh. Orange Warning of Heavy to very heavy rainfall was issued for districts of Subarnapur, Boudh, Angul, Sundargarh and Keonjhar, while Yellow Warning of heavy rainfall was issued for districts of Mayurbhanj, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur and Dhenkanal.