IMD predicts thunderstorms, rain for Kolkata, parts of Bengal, Odisha in next few days

By our Special Correspondent

The India Meteorological Department or IMD predicted thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds (speed 40-60 kmph) over parts of Kolkata till March 22 due to an anti-cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal.

          The weather department said in its forecast that “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".