New Delhi, July 26 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall, with isolated extremely heavy rainfall, over Odisha on July 26 and July 27 amid a well-marked low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Odisha-West Bengal coasts.

According to the IMD, the well-marked pressure area is very likely to concentrate into a depression over the same region during the next 12 hours. It is likely to move northwestwards and cross the North Odisha-West Bengal coasts around the forenoon of July 27.

In a post on X, IMD wrote, "Yesterday's Low Pressure Area over west Bengal coast & adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal lay as a Well-marked Pressure Area over northwest Bay of Bengal & adj...