Heavy rains likely over Peninsular, East and South-Eastern parts of India

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New Delhi: Heavy rains would continue to occur over parts of Peninsular, East and South-Eastern India, the IMD said today.

According to IMD, the deep depression over north coastal Odisha moved further west-northwestwards during past 6 hours with a speed of 12 kmph, and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of today over north coastal Odisha.

Under this influence, light to moderate rainfall at most places: with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places & extremely heavy falls at isolated places very likely over Odisha & Saurashtra, the IMD said.

Heavy to very heavy rainfall and extremely heavy falls at isolated places very likely over Chhattisgarh, South Gujarat region and north Konkan (Palghar District) on 13th September and over southwest Madhya Pradesh, south Gujarat region and Saurashtra on 15th September, it said.

According to IMD, “Light to moderate rainfall at many places: with isolated heavy to very heavy falls very likely over north Madhya Maharashtra on 13th & 14th September, heavy rainfall at isolated places over Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha on 13th, very heavy rainfall at isolated places over Madhya Pradesh on 14th and over adjoining areas of east Madhya Pradesh on 15th.”

Light to moderate rainfall at many places: with isolated heavy falls over north coastal Andhra Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand and Telangana on 13th.

The deep depression over north coastal Odisha, near latitude 20.9°N and longitude 86.5°E, about 20 km west-northwest of Chandbali and about 120 km east- southeast of Keonjhargarh (Odisha) is very likely to continue to move west-northwestwards across north Odisha, north Chhattisgarh & Madhya Pradesh during next 48 hours, the IMD said.

It is very likely to weaken further into a depression during the next 24 hours, it added.

The IMD has also predicted squally wind speed reaching 50-60 kmph to gusting 70 kmph over north & adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal and along & off Odisha, West Bengal and North Andhra Pradesh coasts during next 12 hours and decrease gradually becoming 40 -50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph during the subsequent 12 hours.

It further advised fishermen not to venture into north & adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal and along & off Odisha, West Bengal & North Andhra Pradesh coasts during next 12 hours.