“The landfall is expected by Sunday evening/night and with it will come good amounts of rain in many parts of coastal Odisha”, says Samar Chaudhury, of Skymet Meteorology Division in India. “A weather alert has already been sent out this morning for moderate to heavy rain over West Bengal, Jharkhand and East Bihar with squally winds of 60 kmph gusting at about 80 kmph, during the next 72 hours”, he added.
The well-marked low, will move in a northwest direction and hit the Odisha coast today, and then gradually move in the northward direction towards West Bengal and Jharkhand.
Weathermen at Skymet Meteorology Division in India kept a close eye on the weather system, since its emergence as a cyclonic circulation over north Andaman Sea. Earlier it was also predicted that circulation could form into season’s first tropical cyclone but that did not happen.
Good amounts of rain from the system will come as a boon to Odisha and West Bengal that have been sweltering under intense heat wave for the last few days. Maximums have been hovering between 40⁰C to 44⁰C in the region.
On Saturday, in view of clouding, the maximum temperature in Bhuvaneshwar settled two degrees below the normal average, at 39.2⁰C. Sunday’s morning minimum also recorded four notches below normal, at 22.5⁰C.
Forecasters tell us rainy weather in Odisha could lead to a significant drop in the mercury levels, bringing cool days and much needed relief to the people. On Sunday, the day temperature all along the coast of Odisha could settle below 30⁰C.