IMD’s ‘heavy’ rainfall alert for Uttarakhand and these states today

Rain-battered Uttarakhand is not likely to get relief anytime soon as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for the hill state, predicting ‘heavy’ rainfall till Friday, with some districts on an orange alert for Saturday.

Besides Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal are also likely to continue receiving rainfall activities for the next two days, according to the IMD.

Uttarakhand’s Dehradun MeT office has put several districts, including Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri, Dehradun, Pauri Garhwal, Pithoragarh, among others, on a yellow alert on Tuesday. However, some districts such as Tehri Garhwal, Dehradun, Pauri Garhwal, Champawat, Nainital, and Haridwar are on an orange alert for Wednesday with the possibility of ‘very heavy’ rainfall in isolated areas. It stated that all these districts will continue to experience downpours till Friday and are on a yellow alert.

UP, Bihar on alert too

Similarly, the IMD warned that Bihar will also get isolated ‘very heavy’ rainfall today, and similar weather conditions will prevail in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday. Furthermore, the weather office predicted “light to moderate widespread rainfall with isolated showers” to continue in West Bengal and Sikkim today, and in Jharkhand during the next 48 hours.

In view of the prediction, the regional weather office in Bihar’s Patna has put all the districts on a yellow alert for today, except Madhubani, Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur, Saharsa, Purnia, and Kathihar, which are on an orange alert and will receive ‘very heavy’ rainfall throughout the day as per the prediction.

The IMD further noted that the remaining parts of the country, except the northeast, will witness subdued rainfall activity till August 14.

All seven northeastern states will witness isolated ‘heavy to very heavy’ rainfall till Wednesday and isolated ‘heavy’ rainfall in the subsequent three days, the IMD said. It predicted, “Light or moderate fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall activity very likely over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, and Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura during the next 2 days and isolated heavy rainfall for subsequent 3 days.”