Monsoon covers India 6 days ahead of schedule
EARLY ARRIVAL | IMD recorded below normal rains in June A view of the flooded Narada Kund area as Alaknanda River continuously rose due to heavy rainfall on Tuesday.
The southwest monsoon has covered the entire country six days ahead of the normal date despite making sluggish progress during mid-June, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday.
“The southwest monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab today. Thus, it covered the entire country on July 2, 2024, against the normal date of July 8,” the IMD said in a statement
The monsoon arrived in Kerala and the northeastern region on May 30, two and six days earlier than usual.
The country recorded 16 days of below-normal rainfall activity from June 11 to June 27, leading to overall below-normal precipitation in June, with 147.2 mm of rainfall against a normal of 165.3 mm, the seventh lowest since 2001.
Alaknanda's fury gives scare to Badrinath devotees The ongoing excavation work along the banks of the Alaknanda River created a floodlike situation late Monday with the water briefly submerging the Brahmakapal and reaching up to the boundary of the Taptkund close to the Badrinath
temple causing a scare among the devotees.
North-east still submerged Assam's flood situation remained critical on Tuesday with over 6.71 lakh people affected in 20 districts in the second wave of flooding this year, as the Indian Air Force 13 stranded fishermen from the severely-hit Dibrugarh district. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa
Sarma on Tuesday inspected the flood-affected areas.
Majority of the rivers and their tributaries in Arunachal Pradesh are flowing above the danger level on Tuesday, even as the weather conditions improved marginally.
Meanwhile, A couple and their four-year-old daughter were killed after a landslide partially buried their tinroofed concrete building in Mizoram on Tuesday. The incident, triggered by incessant rain, Aizawl SP Rahool Alwal said.
30 Gujarat villages cut off
Around 30 villages in Junagadh district of Gujarat were cut off as roads leading to them got submerged following heavy rains, with Vanthali in the district recording 361 mm rains in the 24-hour period ending Tuesday morning, officials said.