Odisha Alerts All District Collectors As IMD Warns Of More Rainfall Till August 20

With the low pressure area over Bay of Bengal intensifying and the IMD forecasting heavy downpour in parts of Odisha till August 20, the state government on Saturday put all the 30 districts on alert to deal with any possible flood-like situation or water-logging.

The India Meteorological Department, in its evening bulletin, said that the low pressure area over north Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas along the Bangladesh-West Bengal coasts is likely to move north-northwestwards and become a well-marked low pressure area over Bangladesh and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal by August 19.