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Cyclone over Odisha
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●Active situation. Being tracked now. The figures are still moving.Odisha ·17 Sep 2026
Four readings this page holds, and where each one is explained. Every source behind them.
Where
Odisha — and the river it runs into. Positions are real coordinates; the extent of the event is not known.
Region named in the reportingDownstream, in the pathThe satellite frame
Frame 1,331 km wide. The ring is an area, not a point: the reporting names the region, not a location inside it. Positions of the downstream places are true.
- Origin Odisha
- Direct impact India, downstream
What the satellite sees
Imagery published here, not linked to. The same public NASA layers a newsroom would use, over the region the reporting names, on the dates either side of the event.
Drag to wipe. Same layer, same box, same satellite. Cloud 2% before, 8.1% after.
What the eye would see from orbit. Cloud is white, forest dark green, silt-laden floodwater pale brown. Printed here in black and white.
Cloud and snow are not separated. Both are bright and colourless at this resolution and there is no honest way to tell them apart from colour alone, so the figure this page prints is “cloud or snow” and means exactly that.
250 m per pixel. That is enough to show a changed river course, a flood plain and a large landslide scar. It is not enough to show a bridge or a building, and this page does not claim it is.
Frame 16.45–25.45°N, 80.281–89.919°E. The region reported, not a located site.
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NASA Worldview Snapshots. Public domain, courtesy of NASA EOSDIS GIBS.
What happens next
Two horizons. A level only where a published threshold and a number exist to put something against — everything else is named as a watch, not graded.
Next 24–72 hours
The rainfall level is computed from a forecast model over a representative point — Open-Meteo forecast API, not a gauge at the event. The ungraded items are the mechanisms that follow this hazard. This page does not pretend to know their probability.
Data and sources
Everything this page is built from, counted by kind. Nothing here is quoted in this site’s own voice.
View all 9 sources
Official
- Thunderstorm with Lightning — 7 districts of Odisha — Very Likely Odisha SDMA · Thu Sep 17 14:18:00 IST 2026
Reported
- Cyclone over Odisha soon? Amid developing low-pressure, IMD says do not panic Hindustan Times · Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:48:40 GMT
- Cyclone To Hit Odisha Coast? IMD's Big Update On Low-Pressure Area Formation; Heavy Rain Expected In Samabalpur, Cuttack The Daily Jagran · Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:11:00 GMT
- IMD Dismisses Odisha Cyclone Rumours as Low-Pressure System Brings Heavy Rain Alert streamlinefeed.co.ke · Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:39:19 GMT
- Don’t Create Panic, Says IMD DG Amid ‘Cyclone Threat To Odisha’ Rumours; Heavy Rain Likely From Sept 22–26 OdishaBytes · Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:44:37 GMT
- Is Odisha bracing for cyclone in September? IMD clarifies Sambad English · Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:56:53 GMT
- Cyclone Alert: MME Consensus Points to Odisha Landfall on Sept 23–24 Argus English · Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:19:11 GMT
- Odisha Records 11 Low-Pressure Areas This Monsoon; IMD Rejects Cyclone Claims Ommcom News · Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:59:32 GMT
- Weather Alert IMD Warns of Heavy Rain in Odisha, Possible Cyclone Formation Argus English · Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:19:11 GMT
A headline is evidence that something was said. It is never evidence that it is true — which is why every figure at the top of this page carries the outlet that printed it and, where they disagree, all of them.
What is not established
- Casualty and damage figures are not established here. Any number in the headlines below belongs to the outlet that printed it.
- The mechanism is this page's reading of how the event was first reported, not a finding. Himalayan disasters are often reclassified once fieldwork is done.
- The extent of the affected area has not been verified against satellite or official mapping.
- Whether this event is continuing or has passed is not established.
Last changed 15:41 IST, 17 Sep 2026.
This is one event
The standing picture — how much extreme rain India actually gets, what IMD counts as extreme, who the rain kills, and what is changing across twelve cities — is on the situation page this belongs to.
A gap is a gap
An empty day stays empty — a gap in the record is a gap in the record, never a zero.
Cite this page
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This is what we are doing.
It is not enough.
The work against this reading
Mostly the written record, and going to look. Three of the essays on this site were reported out of flood years, and Gram Anubhav takes groups into villages living with this, run with over a hundred grassroots partners in the villages themselves.
And why it is not a reply
Publishing and going to see are not resilience. Swechha does not build drainage, and nothing here reduces the 3,594 deaths this page counts. What the work does is make the count harder to ignore — a smaller claim than it sounds, and the only one the evidence supports.
Understand the data
- What counts as extreme rainfall?IMD's day categories — and the reason a day is the wrong unit for a cloudburst.
- How is Delhi's rainfall measured?Gauges, a seasonal normal, and why two Delhi rainfall figures rarely agree.
- Measured or modelled?The first question to ask of any environmental number, and the one most often skipped.
Once a month, what these numbers did.
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