Cold wave grips Odisha, 6 districts beneath 15°C

Bhubaneswar: The chilly wave grips Odisha because the temperature remained beneath 15 levels Celsius at 6 locations throughout the state.
As many as six locations braved the chilly climate with minimal temperatures hovering beneath 15-degree Celsius. The evening temperature fell beneath 10 levels Celsius in Daringbadi on Saturday.
Besides, the temperature recorded below 15 deg celsius in Koraput (12.2), Phulbani (12.6), Keonjhar (14.1), Titlagarh (14.3) and Jharsuguda (14.6).
The minimal temperature recorded in Daringbadi was 9.5 diploma celsius.
Daringbadi is being termed because the “Kashmir of Odisha” because of the chilly local weather. The hill station is situated within the Kandhamal district on the peak of about 3,000 ft above sea stage.
The twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack additionally recorded 17 and 18-degree Celsius respectively.
The Centre additional knowledgeable {that a} cyclonic circulation lies over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining equatorial Indian Ocean off Sumatra coast. Under its affect, a low strain space is prone to type over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood round November 9.
The system is prone to grow to be extra marked and transfer west northwestward in direction of north Tamil Nadu coast throughout the subsequent 48 hours, it stated.