It has also issued yellow warning of dense fog for 7 districts till Thursday morning.

JAN 17

Yellow warning: Dense fog is likely at one or two places in Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Sundargarh, Keonjhar, and Jharsuguda.

Light to moderate rain\thundershower may occur at a few places in Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada and at one or two places in Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Cuttack and Khurda.

JAN 18

Light to moderate rain\thundershower is likely at a few places in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, and at one or two places in Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, and Jagatsinghpur.

JAN 19

Light rain\thundershower may occur at one or two places in Balasore, Bhadrak, and Kendrapada districts.

The weather agency further stated that shallow to moderate fog is likely at one or two places across districts in the state during these three days.

While dry weather may prevail during next three days, light rain\thundershower may resume one or two places in Ganjam and Gajapati on January 23. There will be no large change in the minimum temperature during this period, it added.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued the yellow warning of light to moderate rain/thundershower with lightning for some places in Dhenkanal, Cuttack (including Cuttack city), Khurda (including Bhubaneswar), Bhadrak, Balasore, Keonjhar, Jajpur, and Mayurbhanj districts, till 3.30 pm. People have been advised to keep a watch on the weather and accordingly move to safer places to protect themselves from lightning strike.

Very heavy rain has been lashing Odisha since the last 24 hours with the formation of the low pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal off West Bengal-Odisha coast on Tuesday morning. The system is likely to bringing more rains to the state while moving west-northwestwards across North Odisha & South Jharkhand during the next 2 days.

The weather agency has issued orange warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) for one or two places in Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Sonepur, Bolangir, Boudh, Sambalpur, Angul, Bargarh and Jharsuguda till 8.30 am on Thursday. Heavy rainfall (7 to 11 cm) may also occur at one or two places in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Nuapada, Nabarangpur, Rayagada and Ganjam.

Thunderstorm with lightning has also been sounded for one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Angul, Dhenkanal, Sambalpur, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Nuapada, Bolangir, Sonepur, Boudh, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Ganjam, Nayagarh, Puri and Khurda.

Overall rainfall activity likely to be slightly above normal during this period with isolated heavy to very heavy rain in some districts, it added.

According to the midday bulletin, light to moderate rain may occur at a few place across the state till September 1. It has issued yellow warning of thunderstorm with lightning for one or two places in Nuapada, Balangir, Sonepur, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Angul, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Gajapati and Kalahandi, the following days (August 31).

The thunderstorm with lightning warning continues for the subsequent 24 hour. The districts that are likely to be affected are Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Angul, Dhenkanal, Boudh, Kandhamal, Rayagada, Malkangiri and Koraput.

Odisha has recorded 782 mm rainfall against the normal value of 884.2 mm till August 28 this monsoon season. While one districts has received excess rain, 11 have recorded a shortfall and the rest 18 districts are in the normal category.

At least six blocks of Cuttack district, where paddy is cultivated over 1,23,525 hectare, are facing a drought-like situation owing to acute deficit rainfall in the last one week with Niali receiving the lowest of 3 mm.