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A road in Bhubaneswar during the rains on Tuesday
BHUBANESWAR: The state is likely to witness a normal rainfall during the monsoon this year that will last from June to September, said IMD s latest forecast released on Tuesday.
For June, the rainfall is also expected to be above normal at most places, the forecast said. The monsoon is likely to hit Kerala coast around June 3. So it s arrival in the state is expected between June 11 and 15, the forecast said. Of four separate region-wise forecast from the IMD headquarter, Odisha comes under central region, which was expected to receive over 106% monsoon rain, said director of regional IMD centre H R Biswas. He said arrival of the monsson in the state would be clear once it hits the hit Kerala coast.
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BHUBANESWAR: Cyclone Yaas, predicted to cross the north Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar islands around Wednesday noon as a very severe cyclonic storm, will be the third cyclone in the Bay of Bengal hitting the East coast in the month of May in three years.
The state government has made massive preparations to ensure zero casualty amid predictions that North Odisha districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayurbhanj, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapada may be severely hit.
Before this Fani had devastated large parts of coastal Odisha, severely battering religious capital Puri and state capital Bhubaneswar, after making landfall near Puri on May 3, 2019. This was followed by Amphan that left a trail of destruction in northern Odisha and caused massive damage in Kolkata crossing West Bengal coast on May 20, 2020. Both Fani and Amphan were extremely severe cyclones. This time Odisha anticipates very severe cyclonic storm with sustaine