Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to witness heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in several districts on Wednesday as a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is moving towards the North Andhra Pradesh-South Odisha coast, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

According to the IMD's morning bulletin, the deep depression was located around 70 km east-southeast of Kalingapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, 150 km south of Gopalpur, 230 km south-southwest of Puri and 150 km east-northeast of Visakhapatnam.

The weather system is very likely to move west-northwestwards and cross the North Andhra Pradesh-South Odisha coasts between Visakhapatnam and Gopalpur, close to Kalingapatnam, by Wednesday night as a deep depression.

The IMD has issued red, orange and yellow warnings for several districts of Odisha for Wednesday.

Red warning for four districts

The IMD has issued a red warning for Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Malkangiri, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy rainfall at one or two locations.

Thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty winds reaching 50-60 kmph are also likely at one or two places in these districts.

Orange warning for six districts

An orange warning has been issued for Nuapada, Balangir, Kandhamal, Rayagada, Gajapati and Ganjam.

Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely at one or two places in these districts. Thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds of 50-60 kmph are also expected at isolated places.

Yellow warning across several districts

The IMD has forecast heavy rainfall at one or two places in Baleshwar, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Bargarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Subarnapur, Boudh, Puri, Khordha and Nayagarh.

Thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty winds reaching 40-50 kmph are also likely in these districts.