Heavy rainfall may lead to landslides in NE, says IMD
NEW DELHI: Extremely heavy rains in the northeast could accentuate existing flood conditions and lead to landslides in some areas of the north-eastern states and sub-himalayan West Bengal, India Meteorological Department said on Saturday.
The met department has issued a red category warning for most of northeast including Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland and sub Himalayan West Bengal on July 19, 20 and 21 and an orange category warning for entire north and northwest India including Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Uttarakhand for the same period.
Red category warning indicates that local and disaster control authorities take action to prevent flooding or landslide disasters.
An orange category warning indicates disaster management and authorities should prepare for disaster control.
“We have started impact based warnings for 12 cities in India including Delhi, Mumbai, Shimla, Dehradun, Shillong, Guwahati and others. When we have a consensus on the likely impact, we issue an impactbased warning...the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has been emphasising that we alert people on the weather. The assessment is based on a multi hazard approach,” said RK Jenamani, senior scientist, national weather forecasting centre.