Northern India to receive heavy rainfall on Wed-Thu, says IMD
New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast very heavy rainfall of 115.6 to 204.4 mm in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on Wednesday and Thursday. The two states have been issued an orange alert. During 1 June-23 July, northwest India received 40% above-normal rainfall at 318.8 mm.
Rains were 78% above normal in Himachal Pradesh and 26% above normal in Uttarakhand. Heavy showers may cause localized flooding and landslides. Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have also been issued ornage alert. Haryana, West Uttar Pradesh and East Rajasthan are expected to get heavy-to-very heavy rainfall on Wednesday.
In southern India, including south interior and coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana, and central India including Odisha, Goa and Maharashtra have also been issued an orange alert till Thursday. Isolated very heavy rainfall is likely over Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh during Wednesday-Thursday, and extremely heavy rainfall may occur over Konkan, Goa and ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra on Wednesday. Odisha is expected to get very heavy rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday.
IMD's Agromet services has advised farmers in these regions drain out excess water from crop fields. It has been advised to postpone transplanting of rice and finger millet in Konkan; rice in Gujarat and ghat regions of Madhya Maharashtra. Farmers in Telangana have been asked to postpone direct sowing of rice.
Farmers in Saurashtra have been instructed to delay sowing of castor and pigeon peas. Coastal Karnataka farmers must postpone groundnut, maize, late sown cotton and red gram, it said. Meanwhile, the river Yamuna was flowing above the danger mark in the national capital.
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