Ten people were killed in landslides triggered by torrential rains in Assam even as the intense heat wave scorched the northern states with Palodhi in Rajasthan sizzling at 50.5° C and Orissa reportin
Ten people were killed in landslides triggered by torrential rains in Assam even as the intense heat wave scorched the northern states with Palodhi in Rajasthan sizzling at 50.5° C and Orissa reporting one more sunstroke death.
For Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry, the Met department issued a “very heavy rainfall” warning for the next two days.
Palodhi in Rajasthan recorded the highest in the country on Wednesday and the highest in the state this season at 50.5°, followed by Churu at 49.1, Jaisalmer at 48.8 and Barmer at 48.6°.
Orissa reported another sunstroke death, taking the toll to 19. Sonepur was the hottest place in the state at 41.4 degrees.
Continuous heavy rains in Assam for the last three days triggered landslides that claimed 10 lives in Karimganj and Hailakandi districts in Barak Valley. NDRF and police are undertaking rescue and relief operations.
In Arunachal Pradesh, flood waters of the overflowing Noa-Dehing rivehave inundated several areas in Namsai district.
Parts of Tamil Nadu received rains for the third day on Wednesday even as the Met office said the deep depression in the Bay of Bengal is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm in the next two days, bringing heavy rains in north coastal areas of the state and Puducherry.
“The depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal moved nearly northwards in past six hours and today it is located about 90 km east of Chennai and 70 km from the (eastern) coast”. The system was likely to move north-north-eastwards and intensify into a cyclonic storm in the next 48 hours. Under its influence, heavy to very heavy rainfall was expected over north coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the next 24 hours, it said in a release.
In Chennai and its neighbourhood, four NDRF teams have been deployed in low-lying areas and boats kept ready to rescue people in the event of flooding.
Rainfall was likely to occur at many places with heavy to very heavy precipitation over south Andhra Pradesh coast during next 48 hours, it said.
Chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has directed all district collectors to take precautionary measures in view of cyclone threat to southern and northern parts of the state.
Rains and thundershowers are also likely to hit Orissa in the next 24 hours due to a deep depression that centred over west-central and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal, an IMD alert said.
The mercury hovered above the 40-degree mark in Punjab and Haryana with Hisar being the hottest in the two states at 46.8 degrees. Banda in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh sizzled at 47 degrees.
Meanwhile, IMD has issued a “severe heat wave” warning for Gujarat, west and east Rajasthan, west and east Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, west and east Madhya Pradesh for the next three days.
