IMD Weather Update: Deep Depression To Cross Odisha Coast Near Puri Today
The depression formed over the Bay of Bengal on Mondays has intensified into a deep depression and is likely to cross the Odisha coast near Puri by noon.
Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted scattered heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to twenty cm) with isolated extremely heavy rainfall (lower than 20 cm) is maybe going to occur at isolated places contained within the districts of Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Khurda, Cuttack and Dhenkanal. In a Bulletin IMD said that the depression formed over the Bay of Bengal on Mondays has intensified into a deep depression and is maybe going to cross the Odisha coast near Puri by noon.
The Weather officer confirmed that at some stage within the past six hours, the depression formed over the Bay of Bengal had slowly moved towards north-northwest wards with a speed of 8kmph, leading to the formation of Deep Depression. The system lay centered at about 70 km south-southeast of Puri (Odisha), A hundred and forty km east-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha), 120 km south-southwest of Paradip (Odisha), 170 km south-southwest of Chandbali (Odisha), 240 km east-northeast of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 290 km south-southwest of Digha (West Bengal).
“It truly is miles very susceptible to maneuver nearly northwestwards and cross the Odisha coast near Puri by noon on September 9,” said the National Weather Forecaster, adding that thereafter, it truly is miles very susceptible to maneuver west-northwest wards across Odisha and Chhattisgarh at some stage within the following two days.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert across 5 districts of Odisha including Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Khurda, Cuttack and Dhenkanal. The fishermen have been advised to not venture into the sea till 9-eleven.
(With PTI Inputs)
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