Weather update: IMD predicts heavy rains in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and These states till 22 August. See forecast
national capital, bringing temperatures down in the city, which was witnessing sultry weather conditions. The showers brought much-needed relief from the intense heat. Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC), New Delhi has further predicted light to moderate intensity rainfall along with heavy intensity rain over some isolated places in the Delhi-NCR region.
In Odisha, IMD scientist, HR Biswas on Friday predicted that rainfall activity will be occurring in the last 24 hours in several districts of the state. Rainfall will be caused due to low pressure in the North-West Bay of Bengal and adjoining North Odisha coast and West Bengal coast and its influence is going to cause light to moderate rainfall in Odisha. In Telangana, The Met Centre of IMD predicted heavy rain at isolated places in the districts of Adilabad, Komaram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Nizamabad on Friday and Saturday.
Meanwhile, Himachal Pradesh which has been witnessing landslides, road damage, floods due to heavy rains, the entire hill state has been declared as a "natural calamity affected area" in view of the damage caused to human life and property. IMD has predicted isolated heavy rainfall activity very likely over Odisha on 18 and 19 August; over Jharkhand, West Bengal & Sikkim on 18 August; Bihar and Sub-Himalaya West Bengal & Sikkim on 22 August. -As per IMD, isolated heavy rainfall activity very likely over Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh on 18 and 19 August.
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