Odisha continued with moderate to heavy rains for the second consecutive day on Tuesday. Chhattisgarh has also recorded light showers with isolated moderate rains during the last 24 hours.
All thanks to the low pressure area over South Chhattisgarh and Southeast Madhya Pradesh, which has now weakened into a cyclonic circulation. In addition to this, a trough is also extending from extreme North Bihar up to Rayalaseema across Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and in close proximity of Odisha.
Both the systems combined together has kept the Southwest Monsoon vigorous over the neighbouring states, resulting in fairly widespread rains.
In span of 24 hours from 8:30 am on Tuesday, Puri recorded whopping 89 mm of rain. This was followed by Chandbali at 31 mm, Paradip 30 mm, Bhubaneswar 18 mm, Ambikapur 18 mm, Durg 4.4 mm, Raipur 1.5 mm, Bilaspur 1.3 mm, and Rajnandgaon 1 mm.
Further, with the system loosing strength, we can expect intensity of rains to reduce gradually over Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
However, the ongoing spell of rain has helped Odisha to overcome the rainfall deficiency. As on September 27, the cumulative rainfall deficit for the state stands at 11%.
Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh is witnessing rain deficiency by mere 1%, which is more or less considered to be normal rains. And, with some more rains in offing, we expect state to cover this this deficiency with ease.
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