The southwest monsoon is likely to reach Odisha during the next 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasted on Wednesday.
“Conditions are favourable for further advance of monsoon into some more parts of north Arabian sea, some more parts of Gujarat State, some parts of south Madhya Pradesh, entire Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, some parts Vidarbha and Telangana, some more parts of Andhra Pradesh, west-central & northwest Bay of Bengal, some parts of Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, entire Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and some more parts of Bihar during next 48 hours,” the IMD said in its bulletin.