Parts of Karnataka, including Bengaluru, is likely to witness rains this week. (Express photo by Ashish Kale)Monsoon, Weather Updates Today: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday issued a red alert in Mumbai. IMD had also issued a red alert in parts of Maharashtra on Thursday, including Raigad, Ratnagiri, Pune and Kolhapur.
Two persons were washed away in flood waters and one person was injured after a portion of his house collapsed following heavy rains in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, officials told PTI on Thursday. At least 32 houses were also partially damaged in different talukas of Palghar due to the heavy showers, an official from the district administration said. The district received an average 89.27 mm downpour in the 24-hour period ending at 10 am on Thursday, with Wada taluka receiving the maximum 135 mm rainfall.
In Karnataka’s Udupi and Kodagu districts, where heavy showers are expected this week, schools and colleges have been shut. With heavy rains predicted in vast swathes of Karnataka, state authorities have taken all necessary precautions, said Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. “NDRF and SDRF deployed in Kodagu, Karwar, and Udupi,” he told ANI.
Mumbai: Commuters wade through a waterlogged road following Monsoon rains, in Mumbai, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (PTI)
Even as Mumbaikars got some respite from the downpour on Friday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for the city and its suburbs warning that very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall is likely at isolated places during the day, the civic officials said.
The Met department also said that there is a possibility of occasional strong winds reaching 40-50 kmph, they said.
After heavy rains in the city and its adjoining areas since Monday, the rain intensity started subsiding from Thursday afternoon.
In the 24-hour period ending 8 am on Friday, the island city (south Mumbai), its eastern suburbs and western suburbs recorded average rainfall of 28.08 mm, 32.64 mm and 51.96 mm respectively, a civic official said. (PTI)
The national capital is likely to witness a generally cloudy sky with light rain on Friday and the maximum temperature is expected to settle at 40 degrees Celsius, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The minimum temperature at the Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, was recorded three notches above normal at 29.2 degrees Celsius. The relative humidity at 8:30 am was 69 per cent.
Though the monsoon embraced the capital in an impressive manner on June 30, giving the first spell of heavy rainfall this season, scanty precipitation in the subsequent days have led to a gradual rise in maximum temperature.
Safdarjung has recorded just 2.6 mm of rainfall in the last seven days. (PTI)
The water level in four dams supplying water to Pune has increased by nearly 1 TMC and reached 5.45 TMC in the last 24 hours as their catchment area has been witnessing incessant rainfall after registering a deficit over the last month. Though the rainfall has now reduced slightly, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy showers in the area in the next few days.
The water storage in four dams Khadakwasla, Panshet, Varasgaon and Temghar, upstream of Mutha river had gone down to 2.5 TMC in the last week due to a rain deficit. Following this, the state water resources department alerted the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and urged proper water management. Accordingly, the PMC reduced water supply in the city to alternate days from July 4. It has now restored normal supply till July 11 citing festival days, but will review the situation later. (Read More)
Light to moderate rainfall occurred at many places of eastern Rajasthan while the western part of the state witnessed heavy to very heavy showers since Wednesday. Poogal in Bikaner recorded the highest 9 cm rainfall while Kishanganj in Baran registered 6 cm of rains in a day. Railmagra in Rajsamand and Baran both gauged 5 cm of rainfall during the same period, the weather department said.
Jaisalmer, Kota, Dabok, Bundi and Sirohi recorded 47 mm, 13.4 mm, 11 mm, 7 mm and 4.5 mm of rains from Thursday morning till evening. (PTI)
Delhi reeled under sultry weather conditions on Thursday as rains continued to play truant. The Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, recorded a maximum temperature of 39.1 degrees Celsius, three notches above normal. The minimum temperature settled at 30 degrees Celsius.
Moderate rainfall on Saturday may bring down the temperature to 33 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. Though the monsoon arrived in the capital in an impressive manner on June 30, giving the city its first spell of heavy rainfall this season, scanty precipitation in the subsequent days has led to a gradual rise in the maximum temperature.
"A low pressure area had developed over Odisha and travelled to Gujarat. It had pulled the trough towards central India, leading to heavy rainfall there," said Mahesh Palawat, vice president (meteorology and climate change), Skymet Weather. (PTI)
Rain lashed several parts of Karnataka's Hassan city resulting in uprooted trees and blocking of roads.
A portion of a ground-plus-one storey building collapsed in Maharashtra's Thane district on Thursday afternoon, a civic official said. No one was injured in the incident, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said.
A portion of the gallery of the building's A-wing, which had no occupants, crashed in Kalwa area. After getting a message around 1.50 pm, local firemen and RDMC personnel rushed to the spot, Sawant said. They helped members of three families residing in the building's B-wing to come out of their houses safely. The residents later went to stay at their relatives' homes, he said. Thane has been witnessing heavy rains since the last four days. (PTI)
Heavy rains lashed parts of south Gujarat and the Saurashtra region on Thursday and more showers have been forecast in the state for the next four days. The south-west monsoon is now active all over the state due to a well-marked low pressure and associated cyclonic circulation over south Pakistan, an official said.
According to the meteorological department, light to moderate rain and thunderstorms are expected to occur at most places in the state in the next four days. As per data shared by the state emergency operations centre (SEOC), three talukas of Rajkot district in the Saurashtra region - Jamkandorna, Upleta and Lodhika - received 114 mm, 107 mm and 92 mm rainfall, respectively, between 6 am and 2 pm on Thursday. (PTI)
Flood situation slightly eases in parts of Morigaon district in Assam on Thursday, bringing some respite to the locals in the region. (ANI)
Two persons were washed away in flood waters and one person was injured after a portion of his house collapsed following heavy rains in Maharashtra's Palghar district, officials said on Thursday.
At least 32 houses were also partially damaged in different talukas of Palghar due to the heavy showers, an official from the district administration said. The district received an average 89.27 mm downpour in the 24-hour period ending at 10 am on Thursday, with Wada taluka receiving the maximum 135 mm rainfall.
A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was kept on alert to provide assistance whenever required, district disaster cell chief Vivekanand Kadam said. A 51-year-old man, Ramesh Janya Goshe, from Charoti in Dahanu taluka here, was washed away in the flood waters on Thursday. The body was later recovered, an official from the district administration said. (PTI)
With heavy rains predicted in vast swathes of Karnataka, state authorities have taken all necessary precautions, said Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. “NDRF and SDRF deployed in Kodagu, Karwar, and Udupi,” he told ANI.
"Instructions given to stop prevent sea erosion, evacuate people living in low-lying places with common landslide occurrences & also to keep roads clear. Our teams are prepared with all equipment," he added.
About 95 per cent of Jharkhand's arable land, meant for paddy and other kharif (summer) crops, is lying fallow due to a 43 per cent monsoon rain shortfall, according to government data.
Farmers are worried as the overall coverage of kharif crops is only 5.32 per cent against the total target of 28.27 lakh hectares of land till Wednesday. The coverage of paddy, the main crop of the season, is mere 3.15 per cent against the target of 18 lakh hectares.
The coverage was recorded only from six districts where direct sowing is going on. Seedling transplantation did not take place in any of the districts till July 6, according to the sowing coverage data of the state agriculture department. Similarly, the coverage for pulses remained at 3.16 per cent and coarse cereals at 4.31 per cent. The same is slightly better for maize at 20.54 per cent and oilseeds at 13.97 per cent. (PTI)
Mumbaikars had no respite from heavy rains which continued to lash the city for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday, delaying local train services on the Central Railway route following a wall collapse on a track, officials said.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall in the city and suburbs with very heavy to extremely heavy rains very likely at isolated places on Thursday. The IMD has also predicted the possibility of occasional strong winds reaching 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph, a civic official said.
While there was no water-logging on rail tracks in Mumbai, a small portion of a wall collapsed between Masjid and Sandhurst Road stations in south Mumbai on the down (north-bound) track of the Harbour Line, affecting train operations on the route for some time, a Central Railway official said. The suburban services were delayed by a few minutes, due to heavy rainfall in Mumbai and neighbouring Thane district, he said.
The Western Railway said its "train services were running normal", but some passengers complained of trains on the route running late by a few minutes and overcrowding in coaches. (PTI)
Light rainfall is likely in Delhi on Thursday, going by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast. The maximum temperature could be around 37 degrees Celsius.
After a warm and sultry day on Wednesday, when the maximum temperature settled at 38.6 degrees Celsius, there was no respite at night. The minimum temperature recorded early on Thursday was 30 degrees Celsius, two degrees above the normal for this time of the year. In an update issued on Wednesday, the IMD said that the maximum humidity recorded over the past 24 hours was as high as 83%.
Relative humidity at 8.30 am on Thursday was 75%. While the IMD initially had heavy rainfall on the forecast for Wednesday and had even issued an ‘orange’ alert for the day, it was later updated to light rainfall. Most weather stations in the city remained dry on the day. The weather observatory at the Ridge recorded traces of rainfall, while the weather station in Mayur Vihar recorded around 2 mm. Read more.
Three people died and one was severely injured in a landslide that took place at the Panjikal village of Bantval in Dakshina Kannada district, Dr Rajendra K V, Deputy Commissioner, told ANI. "Three people have been rescued, out of which one is in critical condition and has been admitted to hospital," Dr Rajendra said.
Heavy overnight rains caused flooding at various places in Maharashtra's Thane district and also led to water-logging around Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's residence in the city on Thursday morning, officials said.
Local firemen got a call around 6.15 am on Thursday about inundation near the CM's residence in Louiswadi area of the city following heavy showers throughout the night, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant said. Civic personnel rushed to the spot and cleared the locality of the flood waters, he said. There were also reports of tree falls at some places in the district, he added. (PTI)
With the IMD issuing a red alert in the Udupi and Kodagu districts of Karnataka amid heavy showers on Thursday, authorities announced the closure of schools and colleges. Tourists and fisherfolk have been advised to steer clear of beaches and sea areas.
Heavy showers continued across Maharashtra on Thursday, with the IMD issued a red alert in Raigad, Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri till July 9 and Palghar, Pune, Kolhapur and Satara till July 8. Meanwhile, Mumbai and Thane are under orange alert till July 10.
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