Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday forecast more rain in several parts of Odisha, including in Puri town where lakhs of devotees are celebrating the annual Rath Yatra, under the influence of a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal.
The weather system is very likely to intensify into a well-marked low-pressure area and move northwestward across north Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal during the next 12 hours, the IMD said in a bulletin.