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  • Cyclone Sitrang to intensify into severe cyclonic storm in next 12 hours; IMD issues updates 

    Cyclone Sitrang to intensify into severe cyclonic storm in next 12 hours; IMD issues updates 

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    Cyclone Sitrang: The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclone on Sunday evening and is very likely to intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday.

    The storm was currently lying 430 km south of Sagar Island (West Bengal) and 580 km southwest Barisal, Bangladesh. The cyclonic storm, which is named ‘Sitrang’ as suggested by Thailand, will cross Bangladesh’s coast between Tinkona Island and Sandwip tomorrow morning (Tuesday, 25th October).

    Due to this weather system, heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected in the coastal districts of West Bengal and Odisha.

    For West Bengal, the weather office has issued a yellow alert for two districts – North and South 24 Parganas – on Monday, and an orange alert for four districts on Tuesday. North & South 24 Parganas and East & West Medinipur are likely to be hit hard by heavy to very heavy rain on Tuesday.

    Besides these, the capital city Kolkata, Howrah, and Hooghly are likely to receive moderate rain on Monday and Tuesday.

    The IMD has issued a yellow alert for six coastal districts – Baleshwar, Bhadrak, Jajapur, Kendrapara, Cuttak, and Jagatsinghpur – of Odisha.

    Deputy Director-General of the Regional Met Centre in Kolkata Sanjib Bandopadhyay on Sunday said that Sitrang will mainly affect the Sunderbans spread over West Bengal and Bangladesh as tidal waves are likely to reach a height of six meters.

    The system, which is currently lying 430 km south of Sagar Island and 580 km southwest of Barisal, will make landfall between Tinkona island and Sandwip near Barisal in the early morning of Tuesday.

    The district administration of South 24 Parganas has already moved 10,000 people to safer places, and it was working on shifting another 30,000 people.

    District Sumit Gupta told news agency PTI that seven teams of NDRF and SDRF with 26 personnel in each team were on standby in the district. He said the administration was also ensuring the safety of domestic animals.

    The weather office has warned that wind speed over sea areas will reach a speed of 90 to 100 kmph gusting to 110 kmph in the north Bay of Bengal. It suspended all offshore activities on October 24 and 25 and has also advised fishermen not to venture into the sea.

    The office has advised the suspension of ferry services in Sunderbans and water-bound tourist activities at the seaside resort towns of Digha, Mandarmoni, Shankarpur, Bakkhali, and Sagar on October 24 and 25.  

    With inputs from PTI

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  • Weather update today: IMD issues heavy rain alert for Delhi-NCR; schools shut in Noida, Ghaziabad

    Weather update today: IMD issues heavy rain alert for Delhi-NCR; schools shut in Noida, Ghaziabad

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    Heavy rainfall spell is likely to continue over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, and East Rajasthan during the next 2 days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. Delhi too is expected to receive moderate to isolated heavy rainfall on Monday, with a yellow alert issued for all the districts. Delhi and NCR have witnessed heavy rainfall in the past few days leading to massive traffic jams and waterlogging in parts of the capital city, Noida, and Gurugram.
     
    The weather office has issued a red, orange, and yellow alert for most districts of Uttar Pradesh for Monday. A yellow alert has been sounded for Noida and Ghaziabad. The IMD in its latest update said that rain and thunderstorms are likely to strike parts of the state from October 9-12. “Thunderstorm accompanied by lightning is very likely at isolated places over the state from October 9-12. Heavy rain is very likely at isolated places over the state on October 10,” it said.
     
    Uttar Pradesh has shut schools in Lucknow, Noida, Agra, Ghaziabad, and Kanpur from Classes 1 to 12 on Monday on account of excessive rainfall. In UP, the IMD has issued a red alert for seven districts/cities – Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat, Unnao, Lucknow, Fatehpur, Hamirpur, and Raebareli. These regions have received heavy rainfall in the past few days.  
     
    Kanpur Dehat ADM Jagadamba Prasad Gupta on Sunday said that two persons and more than eight animals had been killed due to lightning strikes in the district the previous day. 
     
    The weather office has also predicted heavy rainfall in southern states. It said a heavy rainfall spell is expected over Tamil Nadu and Rayalaseema during the next 5 days and over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana during the next 24 hours.

    As per the forecast, fairly widespread to isolated heavy rainfall is likely over Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal from 10th to 13th; Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on 12th and 13th; north interior Karnataka on 10th and 11th; South Interior Karnataka during 9th-11th and over Kerala on 10th October 2022. 
     

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  • Weather updates today: Rain to continue in Delhi-NCR, IMD issues yellow alert

    Weather updates today: Rain to continue in Delhi-NCR, IMD issues yellow alert

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    Moderate to heavy rain is likely to continue in Delhi and NCR during the next 24 hours, the weather forecasting agency said on Sunday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for all districts of the national capital, which has witnessed incessant rainfall in the past few days leading to massive traffic jams and waterlogging in parts of the city. 

    In its latest update, the weather agency said that Delhi recorded heavy rain on 8-9 October (24 hours till 8:30 am today) – 74.3mm, 87.2mm, and 85.2mm at Safdarjung, Lodhi Road, and Ayaynagar observatories respectively. As per rainfall recorded on Sunday, it’s not record-breaking rainfall for October in terms of daily 24 hours rain amount, the IMD said. 

    On Sunday, the city woke up to waterlogging in several parts after heavy rainfall in the past two days. Several parts of Noida and Ghaziabad also witnessed waterlogging due to heavy showers. 

    In its weather update released on Saturday, the weather office said that moderate to heavy rainfall is likely over Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh and West Madhya Pradesh during 8th–10th; West Uttar Pradesh, and East Rajasthan on 8th and 9th; Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi on 8th and East Madhya Pradesh on 11th October. 

    Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh are predicted to witness isolated very heavy rainfall on Sunday. Uttarakhand has been hit by heavy rainfall in the past two days. In Champawat, the Tanakpur-Pithoragarh road has been closed due to landslides triggered by heavy downpours. 

    “Heavy rainfall spells are likely to continue over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, and East Rajasthan during next 2-3 days,” the IMD said on Saturday. It also added that enhancement of rainfall activity is expected over Tamil Nadu during the next 4 days and over Coastal Andhra Pradesh during the next 2 days. 
     

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