Travel alert: Heavy rain expected in Odisha and other states for the next 40 hours!

Going by the recently alert sounded by the IMD, the onslaught of monsoon and heavy rain is not over yet. According to the news reports, a low-pressure area may soon build over Odisha and its neighbouring areas owing to a cyclone present off the Odisha-Bengal coast.
The weather department has warned about the likelihood of heavy rainfall in the next 40 hours or so. In fact, many parts of Odisha are under the spell of continuous rainfall since the last two days.

Taking action on the weather forecast, Odisha’s revenue and disaster management department has issued directives to the District Collectors to be prepared with the administrative machinery for dealing with any possible problem. As a safety precaution, the fishing community has been told to refrain from going into the sea on Saturday and Sunday.


For now, moderate to heavy rainfall with isolated heavy falls has been predicted over Odisha, Vidarbha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh in the next 24 hours, as well as over Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat in the next 48 hours. Furthermore, the convergence of lower-level westerlies is expected to cause heavy rainfall in the next three days across Kerala and coastal Karnataka.
On the other hand, reportedly, several districts in Punjab are grappling with floods after a lot of water was released from Bhakra Nangal Dam a few days back when the water had crossed permissible limits. Due to this, Punjab is facing worst floods in 40 years.