The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday predicted heavy rains in several states, including Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal over the next 48 hours due to the intensification of a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal into a depression.
The depression over the Bay of Bengal may intensify into a deep depression and make landfall along the Odisha and West Bengal coasts on November 18 leading to heavy rainfall, the weather department said.
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, IMD Director General, said the (climate) system is likely to initially move northwestwards, then north-northwestwards and intensify into a deep depression over the west-central Bay of Bengal off the Andhra Pradesh coast on Thursday.
Weather Updates
- Light to moderate rainfall is likely over coastal Odisha and West Bengal on November 16 and isolated very heavy rainfall on November 17.
- Australia and South Africa will keep a close eye on weather forecast as a spell of steady shower is threatening to play spoilsport in the second World Cup semi-final between Australia and South Africa in Kolkata on Thursday. While there is a reserve day for all three knock-out games, as per the weather bulletin, rain would only “intensify” on Friday.
- Odisha’s agriculture department has issued an advisory for farmers, suggesting that they harvest matured paddy and other crops. The department also urged vegetable growers to take precautions to protect their standing crops.
- The weather department predicted a heavy shower warning in Odisha (7 to 11cm) over the districts of Puri, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak, and Balasore on November 16.
- The Met department issued an orange alert over Odisha’s Balasore and Bhadrak districts on November 17.
- It is also advised by the IMD that fishermen should not venture into the sea off West Bengal coasts till November 18 as it will remain rough to very rough with a wind speed between 40 kmph and 70 kmph.
- The weather cycle will likely bring isolated heavy rainfall in Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, and Manipur till November 18.
- The regional weather department of Tamil Nadu has predicted light to moderate precipitation till November 17 adding that districts like Thoothukudi, Virudhunagar, Madurai, Dindigul, Sivaganga, Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Tiruchirappalli, Perambalur, Ariyalur and Cuddalore may witness heavy rainfall.
- Meanwhile, the air quality of Delhi on Wednesday turned to severe category again amid stable atmospheric conditions. The national capital’s 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI), recorded at 4 pm every day, stood at 401. It was 397 on Tuesday. It was 358 on Monday 218 on Sunday, 220 on Saturday, 279 on Friday, and 437 on Thursday.
(with inputs from PTI)
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