State Capital gets its first monsoon shower
State Capital gets its first monsoon shower
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Bhubaneswar: On Friday, the state capital of Odisha saw its first monsoon showers, delivering much-needed relief from the searing heat.
According to the India Meteorological Department's regional centre in Bhubaneswar, light to moderate rain and thunderstorms with lightning are very likely to continue over some parts of Cuttack district (including Cuttack city), Khurda (including Bhubaneswar), Boudh, Nayagarh, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Mayurbhanj, Sundergarh, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Bargarh, Keonjhar,
At 12:30 p.m. on Friday, the regional Met Center issued the Nowcast warning.
It recommended people to relocate to safer areas to avoid being struck by lightning.
On Thursday, the Southwest Monsoon arrived in Odisha after a slight delay.
"The southwest monsoon has advanced further into some more parts of the north Arabian Sea, Gujarat state, entire Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada, some parts of south Madhya Pradesh, most parts of Vidarbha, entire Telangana, some parts of south Chhattisgarh, and south Odisha, most parts of Coastal Andhra Pradesh today, some more parts of Westcentral & northwest Bay of Bengal," the MeT office said on twitter.
