IMD Issues Red Alert For Maharashtra And These States, Heavy Rains to Continue in Kerala

New Delhi: Heavy rains had been lashing materials of India for closing few weeks now. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has now issued a red alert for very heavy rains in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and in ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan, Goa.

The incessant downpours have wreaked havoc in states like Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Maharashtra. Heavy rainfall has resulted in cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Kerala, ensuing in over 300 fatalities in Kerala, 15 deaths in Uttarakhand, and 9 deaths with Forty seven missing in Himachal Pradesh.

IMD Climate Change: Pinnacle Facets

• A red alert for very heavy rains has been issued over West Madhya Pradesh, East Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan
• Maharashtra, Konkan and Goa are additionally beneath red alert
• The native weather division anticipated remoted heavy rains over Jammu-Kashmir in the conclusion of Third-5th August
• IMD has anticipated heavy rains for Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan in the conclusion of three–10 August; Punjab on 4th and seventh August; Haryana-Chandigarh on 4th and seventh August.
• Heavy to very heavy rains are anticipated over Konkan, Goa in the conclusion of Third-seventh August; and Madhya Maharashtra in the conclusion of Third–6th August.
• A red alert has been issued in Maharashtra’s Palghar, Pune, and Satara, when an orange alert for very heavy rains has been issued in Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Nasik.
• In North East India, very heavy rains are very seemingly over Assam, and Meghalaya on the 6th and seventh August and Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on 5th August.
• As well to this, remoted heavy rains had been anticipated over Odisha from 6-eight August; Gangetic West Bengal on 6th August; Jharkhand on 6 and 7 August; Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya in the conclusion of three-10 August.
• Very heavy rains had been anticipated over Coastal Karnataka on 4th August
• Heavy rainfall would more regularly than not more regularly than not be very seemingly over Kerala, Mahe, Tamil Nadu in the conclusion of Third-5th August; Coastal Karnataka in the conclusion of Third-6th August; South Indoors Karnataka on 4th August.