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Pithoragarh District Magistrate Reena Joshi said the trolley connecting the village to the outside world was washed away in the heavy rain late on Thursday evening.
The IMD has issued a 'red' alert for Goa, forecasting heavy rains in parts of both North Goa and South Goa districts on Thursday.
Among the areas from where frequent complaints were received include Kaushik Enclave in Burari, the stretch from Wazirabad towards Timarpur and Mandoli Road.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert in Kannur and Kasaragod districts and orange alert in seven other districts of the state for the day.
The local train traffic on the Central and Western Railway routes was mostly normal though the trains were running a few minutes late, railway officials said.
The monsoon, the lifeblood of India’s $3 trillion economy, delivers nearly 70% of the rain needed to water its farms and recharge reservoirs and aquifers. It also brings relief from the worst of the summer.
Monsoon Highlights: The advancement of south western monsoon has led to rainfall covering 80 percent India. However, overall monsoon in India still stands below its normal 23 percent
Monsoon News Highlights: The advancement of the southwest monsoon saw several parts of Gujarat receiving heavy rainfall on Monday, with more showers expected over the next three days. In its forecast issued during the day, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted 'heavy to very heavy rain' in isolated places in Navsari and Valsad in south Gujarat on Tuesday. On Wednesday and Thursday, the IMD said 'heavy rain' may occur at isolated places in Navsari, Valsad, Rajkot, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Bharuch and Surat.
S G Kamble, head of the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) Mumbai, said the monsoon reached coastal Ratnagiri on June 11, but it was unable to make any further progress due to cyclone Biparjoy, which made landfall near Jakhau on the Kutch coast of Gujarat last Thursday.
The cyclone remnant is prevailing over northwest Rajasthan; it is a well-marked low-pressure area as of now
The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) has activated the Common Alerting Protocol following forecast of heavy to very heavy rainfall in 7 of the 12 districts including East Khasi Hills
Cyclone Biparjoy unleashed destructive wind speeds of up to 140 kmph and incessant rains as trees and electricity poles were uprooted, while seawater entered villages located in low-lying areas.
With the cyclone barrelling towards the Gujarat coast, parts of the Saurashtra-Kutch region received heavy rains accompanied by strong winds
Schools have been shut and as many as 17 NRDF teams have been put on alert as the cyclonic storm is expected to cause massive damage in multiple areas.
Biparjoy was packing maximum sustained winds of 180 kph (111 mph), according to the India Meteorological Department. It's projected to hit land on June 15 near Jakhau port in the Kutch district of Gujarat. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said the cyclone was 470 kilometers (292 miles) south of Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, on June 13 morning.
Biparjoy weakened from an extremely severe cyclone to a very severe cyclone on Tuesday.
Officials said authorities in the coastal districts of Kutch, Porbandar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Morbi began evacuating people residing near the sea and had suspended fishing activities as well as hoisted warning signals at ports.
Cyclone 'Biparjoy' is the first storm brewing in the Arabian Sea this year. Local local authorities have issued warnings to fishermen from venturing into the deep sea in view of severe cyclonic storm 'Biparjoy' over the Arabian Sea.
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Fresh western disturbance may quell the heat in coming days, with rain expected in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country
The US-European satellite Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich has detected early signs of a potential El Nino event across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
As the world commemorated Earth Day on April 22, the footprints of human activity were visible across the planet’s surface. The relationship between people and the natural world will have consequences for years to come.
The Indian Meterological Department (IMD) on April 11 said the country will receive normal rainfall this monsoon. "India to see normal rainfall during the southwest monsoon season (from June to September). It is likely to be 96 per cent (with an error margin of 5 per cent) of the long-period average of roughly 87 cm," M Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, told a press conference. Here what the IMD projects:
Fresh snow fell in the California mountains on March 1, adding to a staggering total that had blocked roads and stranded visitors for days. The Sierra Nevada range in the north and Southern California mountains were under blizzard warnings for a storm that was expected to add several feet of snow overnight into early on March 1, dumped more rain in many areas and chilled much of the state.
As the northern US dealt with the winter blast, some mid-Atlantic and Southeastern cities were staring at record high temperatures
