After a drizzle in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday. (Photo by Amit Chakravarty)Due to continuous heavy showers in Maharashtra from the past 2 days, over 20,000 people have been moved to safer places while its capital, Mumbai recorded the highest 24-hour October rainfall in the last 10 years yesterday.
The India Meteorological Department Friday predicted heavy rainfall over parts of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Over the next 2 days, rainfall is likely to occur over north peninsular India and adjoining areas as well as east Rajasthan and south Uttar Pradesh. The rest of the country will experience dry weather conditions.
Hyderabad and Telangana will slowly return to normalcy after torrential rains triggered one of the worst floods in recent history that claimed 50 lives. The Disaster Response Force (DRF) working in the 2 states have relocated over 44,000 people in 64 relief camps. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and sought funds to combat the flood situation in the state. “Telangana incurred losses worth Rs. 5,000 crores due to heavy rains and flash floods,” the chief minister said in his letter.
Traffic Jam at Masaheb Tank flyover after rain, in Hyderabad, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. (PTI Photo)
The national capital's air quality Thursday hit an eight month low. The stubble burning from neighbouring states only accounted for 6 per cent of the city's PM 2.5 concentration. A layer of smoky haze hung on the Delhi skies with the air quality hitting "very poor."
Standing crops over 4.5 lakh hectares stand affected as heavy to extremely heavy rain battered the state. With the survey of crop damage still on, the extent is estimated to increase in the days to come.
In the last few days, most parts of Maharashtra has received moderate to heavy rainfall due to cyclonic disturbance in a well-marked low pressure area over South Madhya Maharashtra and adjoining areas. Heavy to extremely heavy rain was reported from most parts of the state with districts of Pune, Solapur, Osmanabad, among others, reporting flash floods as well. With more rain predicted in the next few days, the extent of the damage is expected to rise. (Read Parthasarathi Biswas's report here)
Hyderabad and Telangana will slowly return to normalcy after torrential rains triggered one of the worst floods in recent history that claimed 50 lives. Government stepped up the relief work as there were no rains on Thursday and water started receding in most parts of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. The Disaster Response Force (DRF) working in the 2 states have relocated over 44,000 people in 64 relief camps.
The India Meteorological Department Friday said that light to moderate rainfall is likely to occur in many places in Gujarat. The rainfall will continue till tomorrow.
Overnight thunderstorms with gusty winds and incessant rain led to Mumbai on Thursday recording its highest 24-hour October rainfall in the last 10 years.
The IMD’s Santacruz weather observatory recorded 86.5 mm of rain in 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Thursday, with intense rainfall recorded after midnight. The Colaba observatory recorded 115.8 mm of rain. (Read more here)
Twenty seven people died in various rain-related incidents in three western Maharashtra districts — Solapur, Pune and Sangli — as heavy rain caused by a deep depression battered various parts of the state from Wednesday afternoon, leading to widespread flooding. Over 20,000 people had to be evacuated to safer locations in these three districts following incidents of flooding.
As predicted by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), most parts of Maharashtra started receiving heavy rain from Wednesday because of a strong low-pressure system in the Bay of Bengal, which further intensified into a deep depression as it traversed across the land, moving towards the Arabian sea. (Read more here)
After being battered by torrential rains that triggered one of the worst floods in recent times and claimed 50 lives, the city and other parts of Telangana were returning to normalcy on Thursday with relief measures being stepped up by the government. In a relief, there was no rains on Thursday and water started receding in most parts of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits though some localities still remained inundated. State Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar told PTI that relief teams were working to pump out water from inundated areas and to restore normal traffic, after the blinding rains caused havoc, flooding roads and houses and toppling parked vehicles.
At least 50 people died in the torrential rains and flash floods in Telangana in the last few days, the state government said on Thursday. Eleven of the deaths were reported from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) area, officials said at a review meeting held by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, an official release said.
Citing preliminary estimates, Rao said the state suffered losses to the tune of over Rs 5,000 crore in the heavy rains that led to the flooding of several low-lying areas on Wednesday with the state capital bearing the worst hit. He has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to release Rs 1,350 crore immediately for relief and rehabilitation works, the release added. (PTI)
Low pressure over south-central Maharashtra and south Konkan is likely to move over the Arabian Sea and intensify into a depression in the next 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. Under the influence of this cyclonic circulation, heavy rains are expected over the ghat areas of Maharashtra, Konkan and south Gujarat during the next two days, the IMD said. Western Maharashtra and coastal districts have been receiving heavy rains since Wednesday resulting in damage to property and lives. (PTI)
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and sought funds to combat the flood situation in the state. "Telangana incurred losses worth Rs. 5,000 crores due to heavy rains and flash floods," the chief minister said in his letter.
Nearly 50 people were evacuated from two flood-hit villages in Solapur, while four persons were swept away by a swollen stream in Pune after heavy rains in the two Maharashtra districts, officials said on Thursday. In the last couple of days, heavy rains lashed severak parts of the state, including Pune, Solapur and Kolhapur. A few villages in Solapur's Mohol tehsil have been flooded and teams the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), district disaster management cell have been deployed to evacuate stranded people, an official from the district administration said.
The NDRF also said it has deployed one team to evacuate people stranded in some remote areas of Mohol tehsil. "Around 50 people who were stranded in remote areas of Ghatni and Kharkhatne villages in the tehsil have so far been evacuated with the help of the NDRF team," the district administration official said. (PTI)
The flood situation in Karnataka worsened further on Thursday with several parts of north Karnataka inundated due to torrential rains and release of water from major dams. Yadgir, Raichur, Ballari, Bidar, Vijayapura, Bagalkote, Belagavi, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Gadag, Koppal, Haveri and Dharwad were the worst affected due to floods. According to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre, the floodgates of all the major dams have been opened resulting in water gushing into villages and formation of islands at different places. Dams which were filled to the brim were Linganamakki, Supa, Varahi, Harangi, Hemavathi, Krishna Raja Sagar, Kabini, Bhadra, Tungabhadra, Ghataprabha, Malaprabha, Almatti and Narayanapura. (PTI)
Subscribers of Vodafone Idea in Maharashtra are facing connectivity issues since Thursday morning as a key site in Pune got flooded. The company said one of its “key sites” in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar area got flooded because of the heavy showers resulting in the “partial disruption in services” for subscribers across the state. Unlike tower infrastructure, which serves subscribers in a local area, the site was serving people across the telecom circle which affected the subscribers in the state. “Our technical team is working dedicatedly to fully restore the services soon,” the company said in a social media post. Read more here
Relief operationswere underway on Thursday in Hyderabad and other places in Telangana in the wake of heavy rains thatcaused inundation of low-lying areas, damage to property and also standing agriculture crops. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would hold a meeting with ministers and officials on Thursday afternoon on the rain relief measures. State Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar told P T I that the relief teams were working on Thursday to pump out water from localities where water stagnation was reported, to help citizens there and to restore normal traffic. He said 61 relief centres were operational and that more were being added wherever required. (PTI)
NDRF DG on Thursday said that the force has deployed 24 teams across Telangana, Karnataka, and Maharashtra in view of rain/flooding/waterlogging.
After very heavy rains lashed Pune district, four persons were swept away while trying to cross an overflowing stream near Daund town in the district on Wednesday night. Heavy rainfall along with thunderstorm battered many areas of Western Maharashtra from Wednesday afternoon. Many parts of Pune District including Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad urban area reported water logging and flooding from Wednesday night. As per the police officials from Daund in Pune Rural jurisdiction, four persons on two bikes who were trying to cross an overflowing stream on a road near Rajegaon Khanota village near Daund town, around 80 kilometers from Pune.
Telangana CMO seeks data on losses suffered to heavy rains and floods. KCR to review today rehabilitation measures taken, additional measures to be taken, and the issues to be mentioned in the Report to be submitted to the Centre
Mumbai experienced heavy rains overnight along with thunderstorm and lightning, causing water-logging in some low-lying areas, officials said on Thursday. Roads in some low-lying areas like Hindmata, King's Circle and Kalachowki were inundated after heavy rainfall during the night. However, the rain intensity reduced in the morning and the water subsided, according to PTI. Public transport services were unaffected and local trains and buses of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), the city civic body's transport wing, were running normal, an official said
A layer of smoky haze lingered over Delhi-NCR on Thursday with air quality in the region hitting 'very poor' levels, even as stricter anti-air pollution measures, including a ban on electricity generators, came into force under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). NASA's satellite imagery showed a large cluster of farm fires near Amritsar, Firozpur and Faridkot in Punjab and Patiala, Ambala and Rajpura in Haryana.
Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao has called for an emergency high-level meeting in Hyderabad today on heavy rain and flood situation. The CM has asked the officials concerned to come prepared, as the state govt has to submit a report to the Centre on the loss caused due to heavy rain and floods: CMO
Damage is expected to paddy crops, banana, papaya trees, drumstick trees and horticultural crops, the weather department said. Flooding/water logging in low lying areas, disruption of surface transport, landslides, water pooling is also expected in the affected areas.
The weather bureau has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad for Thursday with a forecast of thunderstorm, accompanied with lightning and gusty winds, and very heavy rainfall at isolated places. Further, a yellow alert has been issued for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar on Friday. Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning and gusty winds and heavy rain is expected at isolated places, said IMD.
At least 41 relief camps in Kalaburagi, Yadgir, and Bidar districts of Karnataka became operational on Wednesday as several parts of north interior Karnataka experienced flood-like situations as heavy rains continued for the third consecutive day.While several residents of villages in low-lying and vulnerable areas were warned or evacuated by district authorities, nearly 5000 people have been shifted to relief camps as a precautionary measure.
The downpour that inundated several residential localities of Hyderabad Tuesday night has claimed at least 19 lives, while some people are still missing.
Nine of a family were washed away from Alinagar colony in Mailardevpally late Tuesday night. While one of them survived, bodies of two others were recovered Wednesday afternoon. Five are still missing.
Md Abdul Taher Qureshi, who survived, said he and his family members were standing near their gate when gushing water washed him away. In an attempt to save him, his younger brother Md Abdul Qureshi(55) and other family members, Md Abdul Wajid Qureshi, Abdul Wasey Qureshi (33), Humaira Tabassum (24), Abdul Wahab Qureshi (5) and Amera Bibi (7), were washed away. Bodies of two other family members, Darkhash Qureshi (32) and Farzana Tabassum (26) were recovered near Falaknuma.
At least 25 people have died in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh due to torrential downpour in the past 48 hours, which led to waterlogging on roads and inundation of some low-lying areas. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday and assured them of all possible support and assistance from the Centre in the rescue-and-relief work. READ MORE
Ten people were killed in rain-related incidents across Andhra Pradesh following torrential downpour in the last 48 hours, the government said. Heavy rains continued to pound the state, causing damage to roads and disrupting power supply in several places. For the second time in less than 20 days, river Krishna remained swollen on Wednesday as it received a heavy flood due to rainfall over the last couple of days. The second warning signal has been raised at Prakasam Barrage in Vijayawada as over 6.46 lakh cusecs of discharge was witnessed, posing a threat to the habitations along its left and right banks. (PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday after the two southern states were hit by heavy rains and assured them of all possible support and assistance from the Centre in the rescue-and-relief work. In a tweet, the prime minister said, "Spoke to @TelanganaCMO KCR Garu and AP CM @ysjagan Garu regarding the situation in Telangana and AP respectively due to heavy rainfall. Assured all possible support and assistance from the Centre in rescue & relief work. My thoughts are with those affected due to the heavy rains."
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Heavy rains for the past three days wreaked havoc in some parts of north Karnataka causing inundation, crop loss and damage to houses, sources in the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) said. According to the KSNDMC officials, all major dams in the Cauvery and Krishna basins are brimming and their floodgates were opened once again. The officials said Kalaburagi, Yadgir and Bidar were the severely affected districts as small streams were in spate with many lakes overflowing and inundating villages. In Chincholi Taluk of Kalaburagi district, the stop-gates of Nagarala and Chandrampalli lakes were opened, flooding the nearby villages. (PTI)
The India Meteorological Department has operationalised an advanced high-resolution air quality early warning system for the national capital as well as a separate one for the country, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said on Wednesday. A very high-resolution city scale model ENFUSER (ENvironmental information FUsion SERvice) for Delhi has been operationalised to identify the air pollution hotspots and pollution up to the street level, the MoES said. Pollution can be captured better with this model, V K Soni, head of the Environment Monitoring Research Centre of the IMD noted. Delhi has about 40 air quality monitoring systems. (PTI)
In its weather forecast, the Met department said thunderstorm accompanied by lightning is very likely to occur at isolated places over Telangana on Wednesday. Heavy to very heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places including Hyderabad on Wednesday and Thursday, it added.
As per the latest IMD bulletin, heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls is likely at isolated places over Madhya Maharashtra, south Konkan & Goa and Coastal & North Interior Karnataka; heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over Marathawada, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala & Mahe and heavy rainfall at isolated places over Odisha, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Telangana on Wednesday. It further said that thundersquall (wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph) with lightning is very likely at isolated places over Kerala & Mahe; thunderstorm with lightning at isolated places over Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Gujarat region, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada, Konkan & Goa, Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam, Karnataka and Lakshadweep.
The Depression over Telangana moved westwards with a speed of 20 kmph during past 06 hours and lay centred at 1130 hrs IST of today, the 14th October, 2020, over north Interior Karnataka and adjoining areas of Maharashtra near latitude 17.7°N and longitude 77.0°E, about 40 km north of Gulbarga (North Interior Karnataka) and about 110 km east of Sholapur (Madhya Maharashtra).
It is very likely to move west-northwestwards and weaken into a well-marked low-pressure area during the next 12 hours. Thereafter, it is very likely to continue to move west-northwestwards and emerge into east-central Arabian Sea off Maharashtra coast around 16th October morning. There is also the possibility of its further intensification into a Depression over east-central & adjoining northeast Arabian Sea off Maharashtra – south Gujarat coasts and gradual west-northwestward movement.
Fifteen people have died in Hyderabad in rain-related incidents. These include eight in Bandlaguda, three in Gaganpahad, two in Ibrahimpatnam and bodies of two out of nine persons washed away in Mailardevpally have also been recovered. People were advised to stay indoors for the next two days as more rains are expected in the state. Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development K T Rama Rao and Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav held an emergency meeting with senior officials and reviewed the rescue and relief operations in the city.
Winter could be colder this season due to the prevailing La Nina conditions, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutunjay Mohapatra said on Wednesday. He said there should not be an impression that climate change leads to rise in the temperature, but on the contrary, it leads to erratic weather.
"As weak La Nina condition is prevailing, we can expect more cold this year. The El Nino and La Nina conditions play a dominant role if you consider the large scale factor for the occurrence of cold wave conditions," Mohapatra said.
He was addressing a webinar on 'Cold Wave Risk Reduction' organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). "La Nina conditions are favourable for cold wave conditions, while El Nino conditions are unfavourable for it," he added. Mohapatra said Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are among the states that mostly see deaths due to cold waves. (PTI)
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall over Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, parts of south Konkan, Goa and north interior Karnataka during the next six hours of Wednesday.
This system, while it was over Telangana on Tuesday, wreaked havoc with many stations reporting very heavy rain leading to road closures, tree felling and severe inundation of roads. The 24-hour rainfall ending Wednesday 8.30 am at Hyderabad was 191.8mm. This is the highest October rainfall reported in Telangana’s capital since 1903.
Inundated roads, submerged vehicles, cars swept away due to strong currents, rivulets and other water bodies in spate — these were some of the visuals that continued to pour in from Hyderabad as record heavy rains lashed the city as well as several parts of Telangana.
A video that has gone viral shows a man being swept away by the rampaging floodwater in a street near Hyderabad’s Falaknuma area. He tries to grab on to a street light pole but fails in his endeavor due to the strong currents. Overflowing tanks and lakes resulted in water entering homes in low-lying areas. Vehicles were washed away and power supply has been snapped in several localities.
Many areas were nearly submerged in Hyderabad's Ramanthapur area after the incessant rain. Residents said they have incurred losses due to the situation, demanded rescue and relief operations to be conducted. Below are some visuals of the floodwaters.
The latest bulletin from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday said light to moderate rainfall with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places is likely to occur over Madhya Maharashtra, south Konkan and Goa, coastal Karnataka, Ghat section of south interior Karnataka and adjoining districts of north interior Karnataka. IMD has also forecast heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places over Marathwada during the next 12 hours.
The weather bulletin said that the depression over Telangana moved further west-northwestwards with a speed of 32 kmph during the past six hours and lay centred over north interior Karnataka and adjoining areas of Maharashtra and Telangana about 80 km northwest of Gulbarga (north interior Karnataka) and about 160 km east of Sholapur (Madhya Maharashtra).
It is very likely to move west-northwestwards and gradually weaken into a well marked low pressure area during the next 12 hours. There is also possibility of its further intensification into a Depression over eastcentral & adjoining northeast Arabian Sea off Maharashtra – south Gujarat coasts and gradual west-northwest movement.
Below are some visuals of the rain in Telangana's Bhongir district.
Water from the Musi River can be seen flowing over the Chaderghat Bridge.
A video showing a man being washed away due to the floodwaters at Barkas near Falaknuma, Hyderabad.