The local Meteorological office on Monday predicted that there is a possibility of rains or thundershowers at one or two places in north Odisha districts on April 4 and 5 following a trough line formed along south and north Odisha.
The Met office said the weather would be mainly dry over the State and heat wave condition may prevail over some parts of coastal and north interior Odisha during next 48 hours. On Monday, Bhawanipatna recorded the highest temperature in the State at 42.2 degrees Celsius as most parts of Odisha came under intense heat wave during last five days. Apart from Bhawanipatna, temperature rose to 40 degree and above in Bhubaneswar (40.5), Angul (41.7), Jharsuguda (40.9), Sambalpur (41), Sundargarh (40), Hirakud (40.8), Talcher (41), Bolangir (40.5), Titlagarh (42), Malkangiri (40.6) and Sonepur (41).