Weather: Orange alert in 2 lower Assam districts

 STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: IMD (India Meteorological Department), Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Guwahati, yet again predicted heavy rainfall over Assam for the next two to three days. IMD sounded an orange alert (be prepared) in two lower Assam districts: Baksa and Kokrajhar.

According to a special weather bulletin from IMD, yesterday’s low pressure area over southeast Jharkhand and its neighbourhood, with the associated cyclonic circulation extending up to 7.6 km above mean sea level and tilting southwestwards with height, persists in the same area. The monsoon trough at mean sea level now passes through Jaisalmer, Kota, Tikamgarh, Sidhi, the centre of a low-pressure area over southeast Jharkhand, Digha, and then southeastwards to the East Central Bay of Bengal.

Moisture incursion due to strong low-level southerly and southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal to Northeast India is very likely to continue for the next 3–4 days. Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall activity with heavy to very heavy and extremely heavy rainfall and thunderstorms with lightning at isolated places is very likely to occur over Assam during the next 24 hours and heavy to very heavy rainfall and thunderstorms with lightning at isolated places during the subsequent 48 hours, the special bulletin said.

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