Heavy rain alert issued for many states

While Kerala is reeling under unprecedented floods, the Met department has warned about very heavy rain in many parts of the country. In a statement issued today, the Met department has said that the depression that has been formed over Odisha has now moved west-northwest direction and lay over south Chhattisgarh and adjoining Odisha.

Owing to the depression, the Met department said, heavy to extremely heavy rainfall is likely to happen in some parts of Telangana. It also cautioned of "rainfall at many places with heavy to very heavy falls at a few place over south Chhattisgarh and heavy at isolated over south interior Odisha and north Chhattisgarh during next 24 hours".

Meanwhile Government of India's Press Information Bureau (PIB) issued a weather advisory on its Twitter account.


"Heavy to very heavy rain at a few places with extremely heavy falls at isolated places very likely over Coastal Karnataka, Telangana, and Vidarbha; heavy rain at a few places with very heavy rain at isolated places very likely over Kerala," the tweet read.

"Heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places over Chhattisgarh and South Interior Karnataka and heavy rain at isolated places over SubHimalayan WB, Sikkim, Konkan, Goa, Marathwada, Odisha, MP, north Madhya Maharashtra, Coastal AP, North Interior Karnataka and Tamilnadu (sic)," it further added.




Odisha, which is seeing heavy rains, yesterday cancelled Independence Day celebrations in schools. In Kerala, rains still pouring down heavily leading to flooding of dams and rivers across the state. The death toll due to floods in Kerala has now touched 79, according to reports.