With a Low-Pressure area likely to form over north and adjoining central Bay of Bengal during the next 12 hours, which is very likely to concentrate into a Depression, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) regional centre on Thursday predicted heavy rains and thunderstorm with lightning in several Odisha districts during September 26 & 27.

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IMD has issued an Orange Warning in these districts of the State for the two days.

In its mid-day bulletin, the IMD stated, “The upper air cyclonic circulation over the eastcentral and adjoining northeast Bay of Bengal and extended up to middle tropospheric levels persists at 0830 hours IST of today, the 25th September. It is likely to move nearly westwards graduall

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