Bhubaneswar: Several districts of Odisha are expected to receive heavy rain in the next two days, an IMD forecast said. The special relief commissioner (SRC) has alerted collectors after IMD issued a warning for extremely heavy rain likely in six districts and heavy rain likely in 16 districts on Thursday.
The monsoon trough, a cyclonic circulation over Jharkhand and neighbourhood, a shear zone and another cyclonic circulation over Bangladesh and neighbourhood are triggering rainfall in the state, sources at IMD said.
IMD has issued yellow warning for very heavy rainfall between 7 and 20 cm at one or two places over Angul, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Boudh, Sonepur and Sambalpur districts on Thursday. Similarly, heavy rainfall between 7 and 11cm is likely at one or two places over Bhadrak, Balasore, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Balangir, Nuapada, Nayagarh, Khurda, Jagatsinghpur, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Kalahandi districts on Thursday.
Odisha has received an average cumulative rainfall of 335.9 mm in July against the actual 341.4 mm rainfall with a departure of only -2%. Since June 1, the state has received 489.5 mm rainfall against the normal of 550.7 mm. During this period, Malkangiri district has a large deficit while three districts have excess and rest 12 districts are in the deficient category.
In the last 24 hours by Wednesday, Rasgovindpuur, Muruda and Suliapada received maximum rainfall of 58 mm, 45 mm and 44 mm respectively.

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