IMD Rainfall Alert, Weather Update: These days it is raining heavily in almost all the states across the country. Monsoon has gradually covered various states after knocking over Kerala on June 8 last month.
Now the Meteorological Department has given good news about the monsoon. On Sunday, the Meteorological Department has told that today the Southwest Monsoon has covered the entire country. This means that no area has remained untouched, where the monsoon has not reached. At the same time, a warning of heavy to very heavy rain has also been issued for the southern states for the next five days.
The Meteorological Department has told that the Southwest Monsoon reached the remaining parts of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab on Sunday. Accordingly, it has now reached the whole country. It is a matter of happiness that usually its time to cover the whole country is 8th July, but six days before it has covered the whole country on 2nd July.
Regarding the states of South India, the Meteorological Department said that heavy to very heavy rains are going to occur in South Interior Karnataka, Coastal Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala and Mahe for the next five days. Talking about the states of West India, there will be heavy rains for five days in the Ghat areas of Konkan, Goa and Madhya Maharashtra. At the same time, there is an alert of heavy rain in Gujarat on July 2 and July 6.
Talking about the northeastern states, all Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura have been warned of heavy to very heavy rain for the next five days. There will be torrential rains in Bihar on July 2 and 3. At the same time, a warning of heavy rain has been issued in Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim for the next few days. There, there is an alert of torrential rains in Jharkhand between July 3 and 4 and in Odisha between July 3 and 6.
Flood like situation in many areas of Gujarat due to heavy rains
Heavy rains in many parts of Gujarat have led to a flood-like situation, leaving many villages cut off. Officials gave this information on Sunday. Data from the State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) showed that parts of Valsad and Navsari districts received extremely heavy rainfall in the last 24-hour period ending Sunday morning. Officials said that many villages were cut off due to water-logging or inundation of roads.
He informed that National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) are engaged in the operation to rescue the stranded people. Jamnagar is one of the worst-affected districts and police say 11 people have died in rain-related incidents since Friday.
Heavy rains stopped in Mumbai
Mumbai in Maharashtra received light showers over the weekend after a week of heavy rains. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) report, in the last 24 hours ending Sunday morning, the Colaba observatory recorded 14 mm of rain, while the Santacruz weather station recorded 22.2 mm of rain during the period. Earlier, in the 24 hours ending 8.30 am on Saturday, Colaba recorded 45.4 mm of rain and the Santacruz weather station recorded 110 mm of rain in the same period, the report said. It said Nashik and Nandurbar districts of north Maharashtra received good rainfall on Saturday, but most areas in Jalgaon did not receive rain.
