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With a low-pressure system prevalent over Gangetic West Bengal, adjoining north Odisha, Jharkhand, and neighbourhood, heavy to very heavy rain and thunderstorms with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph is very likely to occur in some districts of Odisha during the next 72 hours, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.

The IMD issued Orange alerts in some districts and Yellow alerts in some others till July 4.

In its midday bulletin, the IMD regional centre stated, "An associated cyclonic circulation extending up to 5.8 Km above mean sea level is likely to move slowly west-northwestwards acro...