Bhubaneswar: Most districts in the state are likely to get heavy rain due to the depression over Bay of Bengal, a bulletin of the Indian Meteorological Department said Thursday.
It is likely to concentrate into a deep depression during the next 12 hours.
A red warning (‘take action’) warning has been issued for seven districts – Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Rayagada, Kalahandi, Kandhamal and Koraput – from Thursday to September 21.
Meanwhile Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Nuapada, Bolangir, Boudh, Sonepur, Khurda, Nayagarh, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Bhadrak and Balasore have been issued orange warning.
The rest of the districts have yellow warning.
Gajapati, Nabarangpur, Nuapada, Bolangir, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Balasore also have red warning from September 21 to September 22.
PNN