Bhubaneswar: Parts of Odisha received light rain Friday due to a well-marked low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal, which is likely to intensify into a depression within the next 12 hours, the IMD said in the evening
A Yellow Warning for heavy rainfall was issued for parts of Ganjam, Gajapati, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur till Saturday, it said.
The IMD also forecast a dip in the night temperature by 2-4 degrees Celsius from December 23.
Bhubaneswar has been experiencing cloudy sky and light rain since Thursday, which brought down the day temperature by 9 degrees Celsius at 2pm, officials said.
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Meanwhile, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Deoranjan Kumar Singh wrote to the district collectors, stating fishermen should be advised not to venture into the sea along the coast at the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border Saturday.
He also asked the district collectors of Ganjam, Gajapati, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur to keep administrative machinery ready to deal with any eventuality.
PTI
