Parts of Odisha, including the flood-hit Mahanadi delta region and the northern districts of the state, experienced light to moderate rainfall on Wednesday morning under the impact of a cyclonic circulation. The Regional Meteorological Centre here warned of more showers during the day.
The water level in most of the swollen rivers in Odisha dropped below the danger level on Tuesday even as 6.4 lakh people remained marooned across 902 villages in the state, officials said.
“We have retained all rescue and relief teams at their place of deployment in the four flood-hit blocks – Baliapal, Bhograi, Basta and Jaleswar – in view of the IMD’s forecast of very heavy rainfall, Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde,” the district collector of Balasore, which is the worst-hit in the Subarnarekha river flood, told PTI.
The IMD, in its morning bulletin, said that the cyclonic circulation now lies over north Bay of Bengal extending up to 5.8 km above mean sea level tilting southwestwards with height.
The MeT Department has predicted widespread light/moderate rainfall with isolated heavy rains over southwest Rajasthan on Wednesday and over Chhattisgarh on August 26 and 27, in a bulletin released Wednesday morning.
Fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy showers is very likely over East Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal during the next 24 hours.
The IMD has predicted fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy falls over Arunachal Pradesh on August 26, 27; Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura over the next five days.
The bulletin also says that Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir are to receive widespread light to moderate showers on Wednesday, and Himachal Pradesh will see rains the next two days.
Widespread light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy falls is very likely over coastal and south interior Karnataka on Wednesday, over Tamil Nadu till August 26 and over Kerala and Mahe till August 27, the IMD said.
Uttarakhand’s Tehri district bore the brunt of another cloudburst on Wednesday as heavy rains led to the overflowing of Nelchami rivulet in Chirbatia village, inundating irrigated farm lands. However, preliminary reports did not mention any casualty, the district disaster management office here said.
Some bridges on the Moolgarh-Tharti road have been damaged. The road is blocked near Tharti and traffic along the route is disrupted, it said. The Nelchami river is flowing furiously and people living close to the banks fear for their safety, a source said.
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