The soothing news is from Sunday heat wave conditions would no more be observed in Odisha. The Met Department predicted that rainfall activity would gather momentum in the State after Wednesday.
According to IMD forecast, though Odisha would not witness any heatwave like conditions since Sunday, the weather would, however, remain dry till Wednesday. But an evolving low pressure area near Sri lanka coast, which would further be developing into a depression and later to a probable cyclonic storm, could bring heavy rain to Odisha, given its likely movement towards Odisha and Andhra coast.
However, Odisha would not be bearing the storm blues as weather experts predict the probable cyclonic storm to make landfall most likely in Bangaldesh than the East Indian coast.
According to Met experts here, given the higher sea surface temperature of around 32 degree C by around May 19 and 20 and the depth of the warm ocean extending much higher than the 50 metres threshold near Odisha – Andhra coast, it could together pave a favourable ambience for the brewing cyclone to move towards the Odisha-Andhra coast. However, the sea wind speed near Odisha coast would be around 12mt/s by the time. Its present direction suggests that the brewing cyclone could get deflected towards Bangladesh for a landfall. So, Odisha could see some heavy rainfall in the second half of the coming week following the latest development in the Bay of Bengal, observed Met experts.
Moreover, the good news is this latest weather system in the Bay of Bengal could play a triggering factor towards an early onset of the south-west monsoon in Odisha.
The Met experts consider this development as quite positive as it reflects an active Bay of Bengal (BoB). The outcome of active BoB is more such systems to follow near Odisha-Andhra coast later, whereby the Bay of Bengal could act as a force multiplier in having a good south-west monsoon in the region. It needs to be reminded that Odisha could witness less than half-a-dozen depressions during 2015 monsoon, which resulted to a worst ever drought.