Bhubaneswar, July 19: The low pressure area formed over north-west and
adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal has on Friday intensified into a depression over
the same area off the south Odisha and north Andhra Pradesh coast and was
centered about 130 km east of Gopalpur, SOA’s Centre for Environment and Climate
(CEC) said.
The system was likely to move northwestwards and cross Odisha coast near
Puri in the forenoon of Saturday, the CEC bulletin said.
Under its influence, rain punctuated by occasional intense spells of rainfall will
continue over coastal, southern and western parts of the state till late evening on
Friday due to convection exemplified by sunshine and cloudy sky alternately.
The bulletin said the system will continue to move in the northwesterly
direction causing heavy to very heavy rains spread across coastal, northern and
western parts of the state from Friday night which will persist till Saturday evening.
Heavy rainfall is likely in western Odisha up to Tuesday, it said.
Fresh moderate to heavy precipitation is expected in northern and western
Odisha again from Tuesday including in the catchment of major rivers like upper
Mahanadi, Baitarani, Brahmani, Budhabalanga and Subarnarekha due to presence of
a cyclonic circulation over north Odisha and Jharkhand which will continue till next
Friday, it said.
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