Bhubaneswar, April 7 -- Thunderstorm and rainfall are likely to bring much-needed respite from heat wave conditions in Odisha from today.

As per the Regional Meteorological Centre here, several districts of the state may experience thunderstorm and rainfall today and tomorrow.

Hailstorm is likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Angul, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, and Cuttack today. Thunderstorm with lightning accompanied with gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Angul, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Khurda, Boudh, Mayurbhanj, Deogarh, and Nayagarh today, the Meteorological Centre predicted.

Heavy rainfall very likely to occur at one or tw...