Latest weather news: Around 130 villages in Maharashtra have been badly affected due to continuous heavy rainfall. According to media reports, communication has been lost with 128 villages. Besides Maharashtra, the weather department has issued a red alert in the southern states of Telangana and Karnataka.
10 updates on rain/monsoon situation in India
Here are some important updates on the rainfall situation in the country;
India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that active monsoon conditions will continue during next five days over Central India and the West coast.
It said that extremely heavy rainfall was reported at isolated places in Telangana, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat on 9 July 2022 adding that heavy to very heavy rainfall occurred over Odisha, Goa, Marathwada, Uttarakhand, east Uttar Pradesh, central Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Karnataka.
The IMD has warned of isolated heavy rainfall over Haryana and Punjab & and north Uttar Pradesh for today (10 July).
A red alert has been issued in Telangana after extremely heavy rainfall was reported in Nizamabad, Jayashankar Bhupalpally & Rajanna Sircilla districts of the state. Following this, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has asked people to stay at home unless there is an emergency.
Maharashtra have been witnessing continuous rainfall for the past few days. In the Gadchiroli district, communication was lost with 128 villages due to downpour, according to PTI.
Besides Gadchiroli, Hingoli & Nanded districts, the Marathwada region in Maharashtra has also been badly affected by rainfall.
In Uttar Pradesh, 5 people were killed in incidents of lightning strike on 9 July 2022 - two each in Gorakhpur & Lalitpur and one in Sambhal.
Flash flood in Himachal
Two flash floods were reported at separate places in Kullu and Chamba districts of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday evening, according to news agency PTI. No loss of life was reported till now.
Cloudburst in Amarnath
At least 12 persons were killed while 25 others injured in a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst near a camp at Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu & Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Friday, officials told.
Assam Flood Update
The flood situation in Assam is improving considerably with all the rivers flowing below danger levels. No fresh deaths were reported. But it is important to mention that as many as 6,27,874 people are suffering because of floods, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.
