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At a clip erstwhile farmers crossed Odisha are preparing for harvest cutting successful the kharif season, the menace of dense rainfall triggered by an emerging atmospheric strategy has raised concerns astir imaginable harm to their yearly harvest.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) said a slump is apt to signifier implicit the Bay of Bengal by November 24.
“An precocious aerial cyclonic circulation lies implicit the cardinal parts of the Strait of Malacca and extends up to 5.8 km supra mean oversea level. Under its influence, a low-pressure country is apt to signifier implicit the southeast Bay of Bengal astir November 22, 2025,” an IMD bulletin stated.
Thereafter, the strategy is expected to determination west-northwestwards and intensify into a slump implicit the cardinal parts of the confederate Bay of Bengal astir November 24, the bulletin said. It is apt to proceed moving successful the aforesaid absorption and fortify further implicit the southwest Bay of Bengal successful the consequent 48 hours.
According to the State Agriculture Department, farmers are anticipating a bumper harvest this year, buoyed by well-distributed rainfall during the highest increasing season. However, immoderate dense rainfall astatine this signifier could flatten the plants and compromise the prime of the paddy, officials warned.
