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Weather Today: IMD predicts heavy rainfall in Many Parts of Odisha, Light Showers over Delhi

The weather department has predicted heavy rainfall in around 22 of Odisha’s 30 districts till Saturday due to a cyclonic circulation. Rainfall of varied intensity is likely to lash in many parts of north and south Odisha due to the impact of the cyclonic circulation which is currently lying over Jharkhand and its neighborhood, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin released recently.

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The weather department has predicted heavy rainfall in around 22 of Odisha’s 30 districts till Saturday due to a cyclonic circulation. Rainfall of varied intensity is likely to lash in many parts of north and south Odisha due to the impact of the cyclonic circulation which is currently lying over Jharkhand and its neighborhood, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin released recently.

As per the report of IMD, West Madhya Pradesh and East Rajasthan are likely to get extremely heavy rainstorm while Gujarat, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh is predicted heavy to very heavy falls in the next 24 hours

The Met department has also predicted heavy to very rainfall over Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan on Friday.

The temperatures may drop in the National Capital and light rain is also expected in the city due to the low pressure over southwest Uttar Pradesh, said IMD.

The bulletin reported, “The Low-Pressure area now lies over north-central Madhya Pradesh & neighborhood. The associated cyclonic circulation extends up to 7.6 km above mean sea level tilting southwestwards with height. A trough runs from Kutch to Sub-Himalayan West Bengal between 1.5 and 5.8 km above mean sea level.”

“East Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Konkan & Goa and Madhya Maharashtra; at many places over Assam & Meghalaya and Andaman & Nicobar Islands; at a few places over East Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat region, Vidarbha, Coastal Karnataka and Tamilnadu & Puducherry; at isolated places over West Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan, Saurashtra & Kutch, Marathwada, Telangana, Gangetic West Bengal, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala”, says report of the weather department.

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