Earlier on Thursday, the deep depression intensified into a cyclone and has been christened ‘Dithwa’, as suggested by Yemen and it refers to the Detwah lagoon on Socotra island, known for its distinct coastal ecosystem.
Humanitarians are working to provide shelter support and have deployed rapid response teams after heavy rains flooded thousands of displaced families in Gaza, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The 42-km-long 14 Kosi Parikrama is underway in Ayodhya with around one million devotees braving heavy rains in the city amid religious fervor and enthusiasm.
However, the red alert for the Tiruvallur, adjoining Chennai, and Ranipet districts remains with heavy rainfall forecast for nine districts, including Chennai and the neighbouring Kanchipuram and Chengalpattu districts.
The situation is dire, with two iron bridges collapsed, several roads damaged and flooded, and huge tracts of land inundated in the districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduar.
IndiGo issued a travel advisory for its passengers on Wednesday, amid prediction of heavy rains in Mumbai and its surrounding areas.
Amid heavy rains, a monorail in Mumbai was stranded due to a power snag, prompting evacuation of passengers. The incident occurred as torrential downpours threw normal life in the city out of gear.
Moderate to heavy rains may lash coastal and south Odisha during the next 24 hours as an upper cyclonic circulation is formed over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas, a bulletin issued by the Bhubaneswar Regional Centre of the India Meteorological Department said on Sunday.
Heavy rains continued to batter parts of West Bengal on Friday, as a well-marked low-pressure area formed over the northern Bay of Bengal
After a brief spell of sunshine and rising temperatures, heavy rainfall is expected to make a comeback in several parts of West Bengal from Thursday onwards, the Alipore Meteorological Department has forecast.
