Bhubaneswar: The Deep Depression over northwest and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal is likely to cross Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh coasts close to Gopalpur by evening, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday.

The system was about 90 km south-southeast of Gopalpur, 140 km east-northeast of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 140 km south-southwest of Puri (Odisha), 230 km east-northeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 240 km southwest of Paradip (Odisha) at 11.30 am. ADVERTISEMENT

The IMD has warned of scattered heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy falls and thunderstorm with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph at one or two places in the districts of Puri, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Ganjam, Kala

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