Rain News highlights: Amid red alert, Telangana declares closure of educational institutes till July 27

In view of the incessant heavy rains in the state, CM K Chandrashekhar Rao has instructed State Education Minister Sabita Indra Reddy to declare a two-day holiday July 26-27 for all educational institutions in the state. Immediate orders are to be issued in this regard.

IMD forecast: “Light to moderate, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall expected in Punjab, Haryana till July 29. Isolated heavy rainfall is likely in Haryana on July 26.”

The India Meteorological Department issued heavy rainfall warning for Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Telangana among other states. Read here.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced that he would adopt the kids who lost both parents in the recent landslide at Irshalwadi village in the Raigad district of the state, said the Shiv Sena.

Uttar Pradesh will also receive rainfall during the next four days. While western districts will get light to moderate, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall till July 29; eastern areas will see the impact of monsoon on July 28-29, the IMD said.

The IMD predicted intense rainfall in Odisha till July 27 due to a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal early on Tuesday. It issued an orange warning for Tuesday and Wednesday, alarming authorities to be prepared.

Flood-hit Himachal Pradesh will also continue to experience rainfall till July 28. The IMD also said some places are likely to get ‘isolated very heavy rainfall’ on July 26-27. Jammu and Kashmir is expected to get rainfall on over the next two days as well, the weather warned. Uttarkahnd will continue to get widespread rainfall till July 29.

Large swathes of land were inundated due incessant rainfall in Karnataka's Mangaluru Tuesday.

A Himachal Pradesh official told news agency ANI: “Five houses have been completely damaged and 15 houses have been partially damaged due to cloudburst. Apart from this, the Bhuntar-Gadsa Maniyar road has also been damaged. Two bridges were also washed away due to the cloudburst.”

Severe waterlogging due to heavy rainfall causes flood-like situation in Telangana's Warangal. Water enters houses in several residential areas.

Experts attributed the unprecedented flooding in Delhi to encroachment on the river floodplain, extreme rainfall within a short span of time and silt accumulation that has raised the river bed.

Amid incessant rains in Mumbai, a road caved in near IT Park in the Goregaon area on Tuesday, disrupting traffic movmement in the area.

The met office has forecast intense rainfall across Odisha till July 27 following formation of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal early on Tuesday.

The IMD warned for Telangana that ‘heavy to very heavy’ rain with extremely heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places in Karimnagar, Peddapally and other districts from 1000 hours of July 25 to 0830 hours on July 26.

Amid continuous downpour, the water from Kaveri River reached sections of the area's low-lying Kodagu district in Karnatak on Tuesday.

IMD Senior Scientist RK Jenamani says "The red alert warning on July 25 is mainly for the South Konkan area, coastal Karnataka. Telangana saw the highest rain in the last 24 hours in Nizamabad with 400 mm of rainfall. The red alert is mainly for Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, South Konkan and Central Maharashtra for the next two days".

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The water level of the Yamuna river in Delhi followed a downward trend on Tuesday though it was still above the danger level of 205.33 metres.

According to the Central Water Commission, the water level at the Old Railway Bridge (ORB) stood at 205.4 metres at 12 noon.

The river's water level at the Old Railway Bridge has been hovering around the danger mark after reaching an all-time high of 208.66 metres on July 13. It breached the danger mark again on Sunday following a surge in water discharge from the Hathnikund barrage in Haryana after heavy rain in parts of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

The railways had on Sunday night suspended the movement of trains on the ORB due to the increase in the water level.

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Due to the incessant rains in Mumbai, the road near IT Park in Goregaon area has caved in. One-way traffic has been stopped due to road subsidence.

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The met office has forecast intense rainfall across Odisha till July 27 following formation of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal early on Tuesday. The system will concentrate into a depression around July 26, the IMD said in its morning bulletin. “Yesterday’s Low Pressure Area over west central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal off north Andhra Pradesh-south Odisha coasts has intensified into a well-marked low pressure area over the same region today morning. It is likely to concentrate into a depression over the same region during next 24 hours. Subsequently, it is likely to move slowly west-northwestwards across north Andhra Pradesh-south Odisha coasts and bring intense rain,” it said.

Heavy rainfall of seven to 11 cm is likely to occur in Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangapur, Rayagada, Gajapati, and Ganjam till Tuesday morning, with light to moderate rain or thundershower at most places in the south interior Odisha, it said.

The IMD has issued an orange warning (be prepared) for Tuesday and Wednesday. It said heavy to very heavy rainfall of seven to 20 cm may occur at isolated places in Gajapati, Ganjam, Puri, Malkangiri, Koraput and Rayagada districts on Tuesday.

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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert for Telangana predicting a possibility of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in parts of the state for the next three days, until July 28.

Issuing an orange alert warning on Tuesday, the Hyderabad MET department issued a red alert warning from Wednesday to Friday for several districts including Warangal, Mahabubabad, Rangareddy, Hanumakonda, Khammam, Sangareddy, Nalgonda, Suryapet, Medak, Vikarabad and Kamareddy.

The weather department stated that on Tuesday eastern districts of Telangana were likely to receive heavy to extremely heavy rainfall.

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Roads inundated in several parts of Warangal, Telangana as incessant rainfall leads to flood-like situation in the city.

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Mudslides, landslides, damage to highways and bridges in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand; floating cars and cattle being washed away in Gujarat’s Junagadh; a massive landslide that washed away an entire village in Maharashtra’s Raigad — across India, the monsoon has been unusually active in July, with no sign of letting up.

Meteorologists said that the development of several weather systems one after the other with hardly any gap, and their interaction with each other has led to severe rainfall in certain parts of the country, particularly India’s north including Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and the west coast, from Konkan to Gujarat.

The numbers speak for themselves.

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Waterlogging in parts of Punjab's Faridkot due to heavy rainfall.

A cloudburst in Gadsa valley of Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district on Tuesday damaged some houses and agricultural land in the area besides snapping power supply, officials said.

Two bridges and some cattle are feared to have been washed away and the Bhuntar-Gadsa road has been damaged at several points. Revenue officials have reached the spot to assess the situation, they said.

Power supply has been disrupted in the area and some link roads are blocked.

Following water overflow due to malfunction in a gate of the Malana Dam, the Kullu district administration had on Monday asked locals living on the banks of the Parvati river to stay vigilant.

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