Rain alert: Fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls and thunderstorm/lightning very likely over Himachal Pradesh, West Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand during August 5 and 7 and over Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana on August 5.
Jammu and Kashmir news: The incident took place in the high-altitude Khanikot Doke area where the victims had gone to graze cattle.
Rain lashed Delhi-NCR, inundating low-lying areas and affecting traffic movement. People shared pictures, videos of rainwater gushing into residential areas and vehicles wading through waterlogged roads. Delhi traffic police issued an advisory, asking people to check the weather before heading out.
Jammu and Kashmir: People are forced to cross the rivulet in waist-deep water for commuting. The rain has also damaged the crops of the local farmers.
A flood-like situation occurred in different areas of the Nadiad, in the Kheda district of Gujarat. With continuous rains, waterlogging was also observed in Ahmedabad, Paldi, Bodakdev, Usmanpura, and Jodhpur.
The minimum temperature on Thursday was recorded at 23.8 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season's average, the weather office stated, adding, that Delhi received 2 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours.
It may be noted that 3 people lost their lives in Chennai due to electrocution and four subways were closed due to waterlogging.
The IMD added that the overall weather in Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand would undergo many changes, and might experience rainfall in the next few days.
Over 20,000 people have been evacuated and shifted to relief camps after the heavy rains wreaked havoc in southern Andhra Pradesh districts of Chittoor, Kadapa, Nellore and Anantapur.
CM Bommai will take up the virtual meeting of all the district commissioners, CEO's Zilla Panchayats to get information on damages caused by the rains, availability of emergency funds.
Multiple roadways have been closed because of flooding or landslides, including sections of Highway 1A, Highway 3, Highway 5, Highway 11, Highway 12 and Highway 91.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has called upon people to remain cautious in Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam districts and in high ranges of the state as well as in riversides and tourist destinations.
Most deaths have occurred due to drowning and lightening strikes in Sri Lanka.
The rains are caused by cyclonic depressions over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, sources said on Monday. The rains have started pouring down in pockets of Bengaluru since Monday morning.
Heavy to very heavy rains lashing the city in about 24 hours comes after about six years, while other regions of Tamil Nadu received mild, and or moderate rainfall.
Since the start of the Northeast monsoon in October, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry regions have experienced about 43 per cent excess rainfall, a weather official said.
According to data released by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Kerala received 589.9 mm rainfall in October this year, the highest since the year 1901 and more than double what the state got last year during this month.
It was on October 17 that Kerala saw rainfall in excess of 200 mm; October 18 and 19 saw Uttarakhand receive rainfall in excess of 200, 300 400 and even 500 mm rainfall whereas on October 20, it was sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim that saw extreme rainfall events
IMD sounded an Orange alert for Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Kannur districts indicating heavy rainfall on October 20.
As a precautionary measure, the district police has halted the Badrinath Yatra, and passengers en route to Badrinath were stopped in safe places.
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