Light to heavy rains likely in coastal, southern districts of Bengal from Oct 27

Kolkata, Oct 25 (PTI) Light rains are likely to lash several south Bengal districts from October 27 as a depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal moves westwards, a spokesperson of the India Meteorological Department's east headquarters said on Saturday.

There will be light rains and showers accompanied by thunder under the influence of the system from Monday at isolated pockets of South 24 Parganas, Jhargram, Purba and Paschim Midnapore districts, the spokesperson said.

"On October 28, there will be light to moderate rain or thundershowers at many places over South 24 Parganas and Purba Medinipur districts and at a few places over rest of the districts of South Bengal with heavy rain (07-11 cm) likely to occur at one or two places in the two coastal districts," he said.

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