Bhubaneswar: IMD spies new low pressure, likely to trigger more rain

Bhubaneswar: The IMD on Wednesday said a fresh low pressure area could form over north Andaman Sea around Sunday that is likely to become more marked and move west-northwestwards towards south Odisha and north coastal Andhra Pradesh in the next 4-5 days, bringing more rainfall and affecting Durga Puja festivities.
H R Biswas, director of regional IMD centre said the possible influence of the system over the state would be clear in subsequent days. “However, light to moderate rainfall due to thunderstorm activities will continue in isolated manner for the next few days,” Biswas said.
“The fresh system indicates high probability of intensifying into a cyclonic storm or more. But more details on this system would be clear in coming days,” said Sarat Chandra Sahu, director of the centre for environment and climate at SOA deemed to be university. The forecast comes even as southwest monsoon started withdrawing from parts of west Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat on Wednesday. Biswas said it would withdraw further in the days to come.
IMD’s fresh bulletin stated that conditions are becoming favourable for further withdrawal of southwest monsoon from some more parts of Gujarat, entire Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and some parts of Madhya Pradesh.
IMD’s rainfall report of the last 24 hours recorded on Wednesday morning said Kasinagar in Gajapati district received the highest 70mm rainfall. For Thursday, the forecast said light to moderate rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places in the state.
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