Bhubaneswar: Several districts of Odisha are likely to receive heavy rainfall as a low pressure area is likely to form during the next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said today.

"The upper air cyclonic circulation over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-West Bengal coasts persists and now extends up to 7.6 km above mean sea level tilting southwestwards with height. Under its influence, a low-pressure area is likely to form over the same region during next 24 hours," the agency said.

Day-wise forecast by the IMD

June 25

RED WARNING: Scattered heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy falls and thunderstorm with lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar.

ORANGE WARNING: Very heavy rain and thunderstorm with lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Deogarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, and Bhadrak.

YELLOW WARNING: Heavy rain and thunderstorm with lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Bargarh, Sonepur, Boudh, Jagatsingpur, Cuttack, Gajapati, and Ganjam. Thunderstorm with lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Puri, Khurda, and Nayagarh.

June 26

ORANGE WARNING: Heavy to very heavy rainfall and thunderstorm with lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Keonjhar, and Mayurbhanj.

YELLOW WARNING: Heavy rain and thunderstorm with lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph and very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Bargarh, Deogarh, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Angul, and Dhenkanal. Thunderstorm with lightning with gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, and Gajapati.