Assam, NE States To Experience Heavy Rainfall Over The Next Five Days

GUWAHATI: The Northeast of India, especially Assam and Meghalaya, is set to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next five days, starting Monday.

The Met office has forecasted that there is a high likelihood of heavy to very heavy rainfall over Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Sub-Himalaya West Bengal and Sikkim, and Bihar on Monday, August 7. Heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls are very likely to occur at isolated places over Meghalaya. Thunderstorms with lightning are on the cards over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha.

Apart from the Northeast, heavy rainfall is possible at isolated places over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Gangetic West Bengal.

On Tuesday (August 8), there is likelihood of heavy to very heavy rainfall is possible over Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Heavy rainfall is likely over Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Jharkhand.

Moreover, thunderstorms with lightning are likely to hit over Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha.

A cyclonic circulation that lay over south Bihar, with the western end of monsoon trough running close to the foothills of the Himalayas and eastern end passed through Gorakhpur, Muzaffarpur, Malda and now headed eastwards towards Manipur. It is likely to stay north of its normal position or pass along the foothills of Himalayas to the Northeast during the next 3-4 days.

The Northwest of India is expected to experience light or moderate scattered to fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall activity is very likely over Uttarakhand from August 7-10 and Uttar Pradesh from August 7-9. Isolated very heavy rainfall is also possible over Uttarakhand and East Uttar Pradesh on August 8-9.

In Central India, Light or moderate rainfall as well as isolated to scattered rainfall activity over the region during the next five days is exxpected.

Rainfall is likely to be concentrated in the East of India, with light or moderate fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall activity that’s on the cards over West Bengal and Sikkim from August 7-8 and Bihar and Jharkhand from August 7-9. Isolated very heavy rainfall is also likely to occur over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on August 7 and Bihar from August 7-8.

In the next five days, the Northeast of India is set to experience light or moderate fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall activity, which is very likely to occur over Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Manipur.

With heavy rains predicted for Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, the danger of floods causing more devastation cannot be ruled out.

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