Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to experience heavy rainfall today and tomorrow as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued Red and Orange warnings for several districts.

Below is day-wise forecast in this regard.

August 1: Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) at a few places with isolated extremely heavy rainfall is very likely to occur over the districts of Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj (Red Warning).

Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) very likely to occur at a few places over the districts of Jajpur, Bhadrak, Deogarh, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Boudh, Sundargarh, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Khordha, Puri and Balasore (Orange Warning).

August 2: Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) very likely to occur at a few places with isolated extremely heavy rainfall very likely over the districts of Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Bolangir and Sambalpur (Red Warning).

Heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Deogarh, Angul, Keonjhar, Sonepur, Boudh, Bolangir, Nuapada, Kalahandi and Kandhamal (Orange Warning).

On the other hand, the Depression over Northeast Bay of Bengal intensified into a Deep Depression, the agency said.

The system is likely to move northwestwards and cross Bangladesh coast close to east of Khepupara by evening of today. Thereafter, it is very likely to move west-northwestwards across Gangetic West Bengal during subsequent 24 hours, it added.