The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued red and orange alerts for several states as excessive rains lashed India. The weather office issued a red alert for Uttarakhand and advised state administration to prepare for heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy rainfall on July 11. Similar weather conditions are also likely to prevail in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim and sub-Himalayan West Bengal on July 11-12.
IMD scientist Naresh Kumar told ANI: "A red alert has been issued for Uttarakhand. Apart from that heavy rainfall is expected in northwest UP. Significant rain has subsided in Himachal and light to moderate rain is likely to occur in Delhi/NCR".
The weather body also issued orange alert for Uttarakhand and western Uttar Pradesh for July 12. Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to lash these regions. The weather office has also issued a heavy to very heavy rain alert for Bihar from July 11-13. Isolated extremely heavy rainfall is also very likely over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on July 11-12.
The weather office has also predicted light/moderate rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall over Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, and Konkan and Goa during the next five days and over Uttar Pradesh for the next two days in its recent forecast.
Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is also very likely over sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Assam and Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Bihar during the next three days. Isolated heavy rainfall is also very likely to prevail over Odisha and ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra on July 11, July 14, and July 15 and Jharkhand during July 12-14.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is also likely over isolated parts of west Madhya Pradesh on July 12-13. “Light/moderate fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall very likely over coastal Karnataka, Telangana, and Kerala during the next four days; coastal Andhra Pradesh on 11th and 12th July, Tamil Nadu on 11th and south interior Karnataka on 13th and 14th July,” the Met Department forecast read.
Heavy to very heavy downpour can lead to localised flooding and landslides, as per the Met department. People have also been advised to avoid areas prone to waterlogging and stay away from vulnerable structures like kutccha houses.
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