Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has sounded a high alert for Odisha, warning of heavy to extremely heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and gusty winds as a well-marked low pressure area over the northwest and adjoining central Bay of Bengal persists and is expected to intensify into a depression.

According to the midday weather bulletin issued by IMD’s Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar at 1400 hrs IST today, the system is likely to move westwards and cross the South Odisha-North Andhra Pradesh coasts around the morning of September 27.

The bulletin highlights that light to moderate rain or thundershowers have already occurred at many places across Odisha in the past 24 hours.

Notable rainfall amounts include 6 cm in Lanjigarh (Kalahandi district), 5 cm each in Chan

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