The India Meteorological Department on Wednesday night forecast “heavy to very heavy rain” in at least 15 states till Sunday. While the we...
The India Meteorological Department on Wednesday night forecast “heavy to very heavy rain” in at least 15 states till Sunday. While the weather agency considers heavy rainfall to be between 64.5 mm and 115.5 mm in 24 hours, very heavy downpour is between 115.6 mm and 204.4 mm.
The IMD said that isolated heavy rainfall will continue over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh till Friday. The intensity of rain is expected to reduce next week, according to the IMD statement.
Flash floods and landslides were reported in these areas this week. On Wednesday, at least seven people died and 17 were injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in a remote village.
About 10 people were reportedly missing in flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul-Spiti district. In Tozing Nullah in the Udaipur sub-division of Lahaul Spiti district, one person was killed, another was injured, and nine were missing after flash floods on Tuesday night.
The weather agency also predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall over Odisha, gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Bihar from Wednesday till Friday and over east Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh till Saturday.
These states are under the influence of a cyclonic circulation lying over North...
