Cyclone Michaung' Impact: Southern Odisha Receives Continuous Moderate Rainfall
Bhubaneswar: Southern Odisha districts on Tuesday received light to moderate rainfall due to the impact of severe cyclone ‘Michaung.'
The cyclone touched the land on the east coast close to Ongole in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon.
Moderate rainfall was recorded in Odisha's Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Ganjam and Gajapati districts since Monday evening, officials said.
Gajapati received 8.5 mm rainfall, followed by 8.3 mm in Koraput, 3.9 mm in Ganjam, 2.5 mm in Malkangiri and 1.5 mm in Rayagada between 5.30 pm on Monday and 8.30 am on Tuesday, the Met department said.
IMD director general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra had on Monday said that though there would be no major impact on Odisha, heavy rain is likely at some places in the eastern state on Tuesday.
The severe cyclonic storm over westcentral Bay of Bengal along and off south Andhra Pradesh coast moved northwards with a speed of 12 kmph and made a landfall with a sustained wind speed of 90-100 km per hour.
The Odisha government has deployed five teams of Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) and eight teams from the fire service department for rescue operations in the five southern districts—Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati and Ganjam, informed the state's Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Satyabrata Sahu.
The IMD issued a yellow warning of heavy rain for one or two places in Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Nayagarh, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kandhamal, Koraput, Malkangiri and Rayagada districts on December 6.
Earlier, the IMD had warned of squally weather conditions, with wind speed reaching 35-45 kmph, gusting to 55 kmph along and off the Odisha coast in Gajapati, Ganjam, Puri and Jagatsinghpur districts from the evening of December 4, and it is likely to gradually increase to 40-50 kmph, gusting to 60 kmph, from the evening of December 5 for the subsequent 12 hours.
Fishermen have been advised not to venture into deep sea along and off the Odisha coast.
Michaung has wrought havoc across Chennai and adjoining districts in Tamil Nadu, causing flooding and disrupting normal life.
