New Delhi, March 20 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorms, lightning, and rainfall in certain parts of Kolkata until March 22 due to an anticyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal.

The weather forecasting agency, "a trough runs from central Odisha to Vidarbha and there is wind confluence over east & adjoining central India due to the above trough and anticyclonic circulation over Bay of Bengal at lower tropospheric levels."

IMD further added, "isolated to scattered light or moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds likely over sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on March 20 and 21."

As per IMD, light to moderate rainfall is expected over West Bengal, including Kol...