Several areas of India had severe rain over the weekend, which caused waterlogging and traffic issues, notably in Delhi, the country's capital.
Due to the weather department's prediction of a severe downpour, district administrations in various parts of Uttar Pradesh have declared Monday a holiday for students up to the 12th grade.
Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are expected to experience heavy rain over the next 24 hours, while Tamil Nadu and Rayalaseema will continue to experience rain for the next five days, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Heavy rain is also anticipated to continue over Uttarakhand, West Madhya Pradesh, and east Rajasthan over the next two days.
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On Monday, all schools in Uttar Pradesh's major cities, including Lucknow, Noida, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, and Agra, would be closed. Over the past few days, the state has already experienced nonstop rain.
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According to sources, at least five people have died as a result of the rain in Uttar Pradesh. Two people died in a boat capsize disaster at the Rapti river near Gorakhpur. A 90-year-old woman was killed in Ghaziabad when a house collapsed due to rain. Three incidents in the national capital region of Bulandshahr resulted in the death of a 14-year-old child and the injury of numerous others.
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After a prolonged dry period throughout the monsoon season, the rainfall is here. Delhi-NCR witnessed heavy downpours since Saturday, causing traffic jams and other interruptions that made daily life difficult, Noida too experienced significant waterlogging.
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Contrarily, Delhi saw 74 mm of rain in 24 hours, the second-highest amount in a single day in October since 2007, per IMD data, according to news agency PTI. Although the IMD warned that drizzling or light rain would persist, it was unlikely that the national capital would experience heavy rainfall starting on Monday.
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However, the national capital's minimum temperature on Friday was 20.8 degrees Celsius and the highest temperature on Saturday was 23.4 degrees Celsius, the lowest gap since 1969, according to calculations, due to the seemingly endless rainy spell.
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Udaipur, Rajasthan, had an abrupt change in the weather on Sunday, with heavy downpours falling in numerous areas of the city.
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The IMD Meteorological Centre, Amaravati, has forecast light to moderate rain for Andhra Pradesh during the next five days. For the following three days, the Rayalaseema area, along with NCAP, SCAP, and Yanam, is also likely to have thunderstorms and significant rainfall.
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Additionally, the IMD issued a yellow alert until Wednesday for regions of central Maharashtra, Marathwada, and across the Konkan. Over the weekend, floods inundated several Mumbai neighborhoods.
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On Monday, the meteorological office predicted widespread moderate rainfall in the eastern region with sporadic patches of very heavy rain in sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.
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Up till Wednesday, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Meghalaya are also highly likely to have heavy rains and thunderstorms, as are Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura.
