The IMD Issued Yellow and Orange Cyclonic Rainfall Alerts for Odisha
New Delhi: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a heavy to very heavy rainfall warning for Odisha on November 30.
The IMD wrote on Twitter, “A low lying pressure over south Thailand and neighbourhood on November 30, 2021, will likely emerge into the Andaman Sea during next 12 hours and move West-Northwest to concentrate into a depression and intensify into a Cyclonic storm over the central Bay of Bengal during the subsequent 24 hours.”
“Isolated extremely heavy rainfall is also likely over Andaman and Nicobar Islands on December 1, 2021, and over coastal Odisha on December 04, 2021.”
The IMD issued a yellow warning and predicted heavy showers in Gajapati, Ganjam, Puri, and Jagatsinghpur districts and isolated places across Odisha for December 4.
Meanwhile, it issued an orange warning for December 5 and 6, predicting incessant extremely heavy rainfall in Gajapati, Ganjam, Puri, Khordha, Nayagarh, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Bhadrak, Balasore, Jajpur, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, and Mayurbhanj districts.
The department advised the fishermen to refrain from venturing near the sea and requested those at sea to return by December 2.
“Fishermen are advised not to venture into the Andaman Sea from November 30 to December 2, in Southeast and adjoining Eastern-Central Bay of Bengal on December 2 and 3, and in the West-Central and North-West Bay of Bengal along the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha-West Bengal coast from December 3 to December 5, 2021.”
“Fishermen out at Sea are advised to return to the coast by the morning of December 2, 2021,” it added.
(Avya Mathur)
