The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Monday said a low pressure area is likely to form over the Bay of Bengal within the next 24 hours, which could bring light to moderate rain in parts of Odisha over the next three days.

According to the IMD’s evening bulletin, “An upper air cyclonic circulation persists over south Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal extending up to 1.5 km above mean sea level. Under its influence, the low pressure area would be formed over the bay in the next 24 hours.”

According to the IMD, the weather system is expected to move west-northwestwards and intensify into a depression over central parts of south Bay of Bengal and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal over the next 48 hours.

However, the director of meteorological centre, Bhubaneswar, Mano

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