: A fresh low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal could intensify into a depression and cause heavy rainfall across Odisha from Wednesday, coinciding with the Durga Puja festivities, the IMD said.

The low-pressure area formed over west west-central Bay of Bengal around 5.30 pm, it said in a bulletin on Tuesday evening.

“It is likely to move northwestwards and intensify into a depression over west central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal by morning of October 2 and cross south Odisha-North Andhra Pradesh coasts around morning hours of October 3,” it said.

The IMD has issued an alert for light to moderate rainfall across 25 districts and isolated rainfall of 7 cm to 11 cm in Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkngiri and Nabarangpur for Wednesday.

On October 2, all the 30 distr

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