The India Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rainfall across parts of Tamil Nadu over the next three days, even as the state continues to experience intense summer heat, with temperatures crossing 40 degrees Celsius in several districts.
Heavy rainfall is likely to lash several districts of Tamil Nadu on January 9 and 10, particularly across the delta and northern coastal regions, following the formation of a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.
Under its influence, the Tirupati and Nellore districts would receive heavy rains accompanied by squally winds up to 60 kmph, before the deep depression is likely to fizzle out gradually on Tuesday.
India on Saturday said that teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed in Sri Lanka to assist local authorities in rescue and relief operations under “Operation Sagar Bandhu” as the island nation continues to grapple with severe flooding and disruption caused by heavy rainfall.
According to the MeT, this is the third successive system that has formed in the Bay within a few days and is very likely to move north north-westwards and turn into a depression in the next 48 hours.
Heavy rainfall battered parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Tuesday, bringing with it widespread waterlogging, traffic chaos, and yet another reminder of the city’s persistent drainage woes.
A cyclonic circulation is expected to form over the northern Bay of Bengal by Wednesday, prompting weather officials to issue heavy rainfall warnings for several districts in southern West Bengal.
Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall claimed two lives and injured ten others on Monday in the border town of Poonch and on the Vaishnodevi shrine track in the Jammu region.
Twin trough lines coupled with a brewing low pressure over Bay of Bengal is likely to bring heavy rainfall to the districts of south Bengal from 23 July to 25 July.
The Amarnath Yatra has been suspended for Thursday from both the Pahalgam and Baltal base camps due to incessant heavy rainfall over the past two days, the Jammu and Kashmir Information Department announced.
