IMD Forecasts Moderate Rain in Odisha, Bengal on Oct 23 and 24

With the low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal intensifying into a well-marked system on Saturday, the IMD forecast light to moderate rainfall in some areas of West Bengal and Odisha on October 23 and 24, the last two days of Durga puja.

The low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal became a well-marked low pressure and the system is likely to intensify further into a depression around October 22 (Sunday), the IMD said in a bulletin.

“It is very likely to intensify into a depression over west-central Bay of Bengal by October 22 and thereafter likely to move towards Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal coasts,” an IMD spokesperson said.

As the depression will intensify further during the subsequent three days (onwards October 23), there will be “very light to light rain likely at one or two places over coastal Purba Medinipur, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal and adjoining pockets in Howrah and Kolkata, the spokesperson said.

There will be mainly dry weather likely over the rest of the districts of South Bengal on October 24, the day of Bijoya Dashami, the last day of the festival and October 25.

With the city geared for the Durga Puja extravaganza from October 20, the Met office on Thursday said that the revellers will not be troubled by rain till ‘Ashtami’ (the eighth day of Navratri) on October 22.

There may, however, be drizzle in the city and the coastal districts on ‘Navami’ (the ninth day of Navratri) on October 23 which will intensify on the next day -‘Dashami’, the last day of the festival. Somnath Das, spokesperson of Santoshpur Lake Pally, told .