Rains are likely to occur in several districts of the State in the next 48 hours under influence of the low pressure formed over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday. “The well-marked low pressure area over the coastal Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal persists over the same region, with the associated cyclonic circulation extending up to upper tropospheric levels. It is likely to move westwards across West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar during the next 48 hours, the IMD said. Under its impact, widespread light to moderate rainfall activity over the districts of Odisha with very heavy rainfall very likely to occur at isolated heavy to very heavy falls in some districts of Odisha during next 48 hours,” forecasted the Regional Office of the IMD here on Thursday.The weather office issued yellow warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall at one or two places over the districts of Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Deogarh, Angul, Sambalpur, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Subarnapur, Boudh and Bargarh. Predicting that squally weather with surface wind speed reaching 45-55 kmph gusting to 65 kmph is likely over north Bay of Bengal and neighborhood off Odisha coast during next 48 hours, the weather office said.