Parts of North East India receive extremely heavy rains, says IMD
INDIA Many parts of northeast India such as Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Bihar and subHimalayan West Bengal have reported incessant rains – measuring above 20 centimetres (cm) in a day – since last Friday, triggering floods.
“Assam is reporting floods. Bihar is also in a floodlike situation. Cherrapunji, which is known to receive a lot of rainfall around this time of the year, has recorded up to 55 cm in a day. This pattern of continuous heavy rains will gradually reduce from
Tuesday. While from Thursday, torrential rains will increase in central India and over the northwest parts of the country from next Sunday, ” said Dr. Mrutunjay Mohapatra, directorgeneral, India Meteorological Department (IMD). The easternend of the monsoon trough continues to run along the Himalayan foothills with the convergence of strong southerly and southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal over the northeast and eastern India.
This is likely to cause widespread and very heavy rain in many parts of northeast India in the next fourfive days. There may be extremely heavy rain, measuring over 20 cm in a day, in the next 24 hours, according to IMD. Heavy rains are expected in Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, subHimalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the next five days. Widespread rainfall is also expected over Madhya Pradesh for the next five days and over Chhattisgarh and the Vidarbha region on Monday and Tuesday. There will be widespread rains in the west coast also this week, IMD said in its bulletin. However, rains will be subdued over northwest India and the western Himalayas. The Central Water Commission (CWC) has warned of an abovenormal floodlike situation in Dharamtul, Brahmaputra, Dhubri, Goalpara and other parts of floodprone Assam. A severe floodlike situation is also likely in Assam’s Kopili and Kamrup.
(Hindustani Times)