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Heavy rainfall continued to lash Odisha connected Thursday (October 2, 2025) arsenic the slump successful the Bay of Bengal intensified into a heavy slump and is moving towards the coast, prompting the State authorities to deploy men and machinery successful identified susceptible districts to tackle the situation, an authoritative said.
Almost each parts of the State person received dense rainfall since Wednesday (October 1, 2025), particularly the coastal and confederate region. The IMD issued an alert for dense rains for each the 30 districts of Odisha connected Thursday (October 2, 2025).
In a statement, the IMD said that the heavy slump formed connected Wednesday (October 1, 2025) nighttime implicit the Bay of Bay of Bengal is moving towards the seashore with a velocity of 17 kmph.
“The strategy astatine 5.30 AM of Thursday lays centered astatine astir 190 km south-southeast of Gopalpur, 190 km east-southeast of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 230 km southbound of Puri (Odisha), 250 km eastbound of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 310 km south-southwest of Paradip (Odisha),” it said.
The strategy is precise apt to transverse Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh coasts betwixt Gopalpur and Paradip by the nighttime of October 2, the IMD said.
Depression is simply a information that follows a well-marked debased unit and precedes a cyclonic storm, typically resulting successful dense rainfall and gusty winds, according to upwind experts.
The nationalist upwind bureau has issued a reddish informing of supra 20 cm rainfall successful Puri and Jagatsinghpur districts, an orangish informing (7 cm to 20 cm rain) for 14 districts, and a yellowish informing (7 cm to 11 cm rain) for the remaining 14 districts.
Keeping the IMD forecast successful view, the Odisha authorities asked each the territory Collectors to deploy men and machinery astatine places prone to water-logging, flash floods, landslides and associated activities, the officials said.
Fishermen person been advised not to task into the oversea on and disconnected the Odisha seashore till October 3.
“Under the power of the heavy depression, squally upwind velocity reaching 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph is precise apt to prevail implicit cardinal and adjoining northbound Bay of Bengal connected October 1. It would gradually increase… 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph implicit westcentral and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal from October 2 noon to October 3 aboriginal morning,” the bulletin said.
The IMD has besides suggested hoisting of ‘Local Cautionary Signal No-III’ (LC-3) astatine each ports successful the State.
