Heavy rain triggers fresh flood threat in Northeast

GUWAHATI: The depression over Odisha that had led to fashionable rain in the state and its adjoining spaces in the last few days, has moved to the northeast. In the last 24 hours, the region was once lashed by heavy rain.

The India Met Department (IMD) has said on Sunday there will probably be heavy rain in Assam and Meghalaya. A recent bout of floods looms huge with the IMD's Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) forecasting rain and thunder showers in lots of spaces over the Northeast in the subsequent 24 hours.

The all India climate inference issued by the IMD on Saturday evening mentioned that the depression over Gangetic West Bengal and its neighbourhood has moved east-northeastwards with a pace of 20 kmph in the last six hours.


The depression lay centred over Bangladesh and its neighbourhood at latitude 24.2 degree North and longitude 89.9 degrees East, with reference to Tangail (Bangladesh) at 14:30 hours IST on Saturday. The system is likely to transfer east-northeastwards and weaken regularly right into a neatly marked low-pressure house in the subsequent 24 hours.


In every other significant construction, IMD said beneficial prerequisites are likely to expand for further withdrawal of the southwest monsoon from the rest portions of the northeastern states around October 24. Incessant rain persisted to hit normal life in different portions of the region, together with Guwahati, the place many localities had been flooded.


Available information point out that mild to average rain happened at most places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura with isolated heavy rain over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura at the side of isolated very heavy rain in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in the last 24 hours. Light rain happened at most places in Nagaland.


Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh received the very best rainfall of 178.2 mm. Very heavy rain was once witnessed in lower Assam—135.eight mm and 129.2 mm was once recorded in Manas and Kokrajhar. Williamnagar in Meghalaya and Sonamura in Tripura also witnessed heavy rain measuring 79 mm.
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