Assam and Meghalaya escape with heavy rain

GUWAHATI: After ravaging through parts of West Bengal and Odisha, Amphan lost its steam by the time it reached the fringes of the northeast by Thursday evening. Though Assam and Meghalaya experienced heavy downpour, the damage, as compared to the other two states, was far less.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said the cyclone, after leaving a trail of devastation, weakened into a cyclonic storm over Bangladesh in the early hours on Thursday. Subsequently, it weakened further into a deep depression and lay centred at 11.30 am on Thursday near latitude 25 degrees north and longitude 89.6 degrees east, about 300 km east-northeast of Kolkata, 110 km south-southeast of Dhubri and 80 km south-southeast of Rangpur (Bangladesh).
"It is very likely to continue to move north-northeastwards and weaken further into a depression during the next three hours and further into a well-marked low pressure area in the next 12 hours," said regional meteorological centre (RMC) deputy director general of meteorology, Sanjay O'Neill Shaw on Thursday evening.
Though IMD weather stations did not record heavy rainfall in western Assam as an impact of Amphan, several places in western Meghalaya received heavy rainfall on Thursday.