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"This may cause widespread rainfall at least for two or three days," said Sahu, the former regional director of the IMD.Several places in the state also received rainfall in pasts 24 hours. Major rainfall recorded at other places include Nayagarh (80 mm), Harabhanga, Birmaharajpur, Bolagarh, Ambadola, Tikabali and Batli Arg (70 mm at all these places). Mahanga in Cuttack district received the highest - 130 mm - in the state. BHUBANESWAR: Most places in the state will receive rainfall this week even as the low pressure that has formed over the Bay of Bengal turns weak, said a fresh forecast from the India Meteorological Department on Sunday.Director of the regional Met office , HR Biswas, said this rainfall will occur mostly due to a monsoon trough extending to Bay of Bengal. "A cyclonic circulation over north Odisha and its neighbourhood is to blame as well," said Biswas.For Monday, the forecast is of rainfall in most places in the state with chances of 'heavy to very heavy rainfall' at isolated places in the state.Director of the Centre of Environment and Climate of SOA university in the city, Sarat Chandra Sahu, said a fresh low pressure is likely to form over the Bay of Bengal by Friday..