People traveling by bulldozer amid rain in Lahaul Spiti
The Meteorological Department has warned of heavy rains in several states including Bihar for Saturday. Red alert has been issued in Assam, Meghala and North Bengal. These places have an alert of storms and extremely heavy rain. At the same time, an orange alert has been issued in Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh regarding rains and storms. At the same time, light rain is expected in Delhi. Yellow alert has been issued in the eastern states of the country including Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh regarding rain. However, weather is expected to be normal in the western parts of the country.
The IMD said that Friday night’s satellite animation shows that rapidly hot winds are moving towards cold areas in North Punjab, Western Uttar Pradesh, East Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, South Chhattisgarh, North Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Lakshadweep island area. In Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Rajasthan, North Chhattisgarh and North Eastern states, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, there is a possibility of light to moderate rainfall at many places with this process, as well as sometimes strong rains at night.
Possibility of light rain in Delhi
The Meteorological Department has commonly predicted the sky in Delhi on Saturday and moderate rainfall. The department said that the maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to be around 35 and 25 ° C respectively. Despite the light rain on Friday, Delhi had a humid weather and the level of relative humidity was between 90 and 91 percent. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature was recorded at 33.3 degrees Celsius, one degree below normal, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 24 degrees below normal. The rain was limited.
Delhi’s air improved
Safdarjung recorded 17 mm of rainfall in 24 hours till Friday evening. Despite the cloudy sky, there was not much rain. Meanwhile, the air quality in the city was in the ‘satisfactory’ category. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) recorded the overall AQI 58 at 6 pm.
Chandigarh-Manali highway closed in Himachal Pradesh
Many roads were blocked on Friday due to floods and landslides due to rain in Himachal Pradesh. Officials said that the Chandigarh-Manali and Manali-Leh national highways were closed, causing inconvenience to the passengers and created a jam situation. He said that a taxi driver named Jaikishan, a resident of Chandigarh, was injured due to landslide at a catch turn near Pandoh Dam in Mandi district and his vehicle was damaged. According to officials, a part of the Shivabdar road collapsed, which blocked the Chandigarh-Manali National Highway 21 and the road connectivity with the village was completely broken. The queue of vehicles stranded on both sides of the road led to a long jam and vehicles are being stopped at Pandoh Dam as a precaution. The machine has also been brought to the spot, but due to intermittent rains, the repair work was interrupted.
Manali-Leh highway also closed
Mandi Superintendent of Police Sakshi Verma said that traffic will be restored from one side of the road as soon as the rain stops. Manali-Leh National Highway 3 was closed in Lahaul and Spiti district in Juppa due to floods in Masheran drain and big stone and debris on the road. The video of the falling debris on the road is also broadcast and the floods here have ruined the fields of many people. Lahaul and Spiti MLA Anuradha Rana said that the machines have been taken to remove debris from the road and the administration is engaged in work.
291 roads closed
Unilateral traffic has been restored on the road blocked once again on Chandigarh-Manali National Highway 21 near Samatu in Bilaspur district. Currently, the second part of the road is completely covered with debris. In view of the increasing incidents of landslides, Deputy Commissioner of Bilaspur Rahul Kumar has warned the local residents and tourists to travel only when they are very important. Himachal Pradesh received 250.3 mm of rain in July, which is two percent less than the average rainfall of 255.9 mm. The local meteorological office on Friday issued a ‘Yellow’ alert for heavy rains in different areas of three to 10 districts of the state till Tuesday. According to the State Emergency Campaign Center (SEOC), a total of 291 roads in the state including 171 roads in the disaster affected Mandi district were closed on Thursday evening.
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