Rain likely in Orissa

Coastal Orissa is likely to be lashed by thundershowers under the impact of the cyclonic storm Laila that lay centred over the Bay of Bengal about 700 km south-south west of Gopalpur on Wednesday. The current environmental conditions and Numerical Weather Prediction models suggested that the system was likely to intensify further and move in a northwesterly to northerly direction,the India Meteorological Department here said. The cyclonic storm is likely to trigger rain or thundershowers at some places in south and north Orissa by Thursday,it said.