The India Meteorological Division (IMD) has forecast heavy rain in components of West Bengal beginning Thursday, October 2, coinciding with Bijoya Dashami, on account of a creating low-pressure space. The system is predicted to kind over the central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, October 1, and will intensify right into a melancholy over the west-central and northwest Bay of Bengal by Thursday, earlier than crossing the south Odisha–Andhra Pradesh coast on Friday morning.
Below its affect, Howrah, South 24 Parganas, Purba and Paschim Medinipur are more likely to obtain heavy to very heavy rainfall, starting from 7 to twenty cm, on Thursday. Kolkata, together with North 24 Parganas, Hooghly, Jhargram, Bankura, and Purba Bardhaman, might even see heavy rain of seven to 11 cm.
On Friday, October 3, heavy to very heavy downpours are anticipated in Birbhum, Murshidabad, and Paschim Bardhaman, whereas northern Bengal districts together with Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar, and Cooch Behar might expertise heavy to very heavy rainfall on Friday and Saturday, with sub-Himalayan areas additionally receiving heavy rain on Thursday and Sunday.
Fishermen have been suggested in opposition to venturing into the ocean alongside and off the Odisha and West Bengal coasts throughout this era, as tough sea situations are anticipated.
Bengal is presently celebrating the Durga Puja and a few areas witnessed heavy rains as predicted on Mahaashtami (September 30), soaking in puja pandals.
Heavy rains lash Delhi
Heavy rain lashed the nationwide capital on Tuesday, September 30, triggering site visitors snarls, flooding underpasses and leaving 1000’s of commuters stranded on key stretches in Delhi.
The IMD issued an ‘orange alert’ for Delhi, upgrading it from yellow, warning of average to heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds reaching as much as 40 kmph. Below the IMD’s colour-coded system, an orange warning locations town in “be ready” mode.
The rains have been witnessed lower than per week after the southwest monsoon formally withdrew from Delhi on September 24, a day sooner than its standard schedule. This marked the earliest withdrawal from the capital since 2002, when it retreated on September 20.
