The monsoon is causing a lot of problems across India. Mumbai has had a lot of rain, and the water level of the Saryu River is rising in Ayodhya. There is an orange alert in Karnataka, and Assam is dealing with floods again. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) gave a red alert for many states, like Karnataka, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, and Maharashtra on July 9.There is also an orange alert for Assam and Meghalaya.
Mumbai Rainfall
Heavy rains caused waterlogging in parts of Mumbai on July 8. Commuters had trouble getting through the flooded streets.
Parked cars were submerged in the rainwater. Mumbai commuters walked through knee-deep water that partly covered vehicles in many areas. At the same time, traffic jammed the city’s Eastern and Western Express highways. Water on the tracks made railway authorities cancel some long-distance trains.
TV images showed some passenger trains stopped on flooded tracks and some commuters walking on tracks to reach their destination.
Just 10 days after heavy rain in New Delhi caused an airport roof to collapse and kill people, Monday’s rains in Mumbai also affected air travel.
Airport authorities had to stop runway operations for over an hour late after midnight.
Karnataka: Red Alerts and School Closures
In Karnataka, the Dakshina Kannada district administration gave a ‘red alert’ for Tuesday, as the weather department expects heavy rain.
Schools and colleges will stay closed on Tuesday. Heavy rainfall continues in parts of Mangaluru. An orange alert was given for the district.
The local administration declared a holiday for schools and colleges in Mangaluru.
Delhi’s Sudden Downpour
A sudden downpour in Delhi surprised citizens and caused heavy waterlogging and traffic jams on Tuesday. The public works department in the city got 22 calls about waterlogging
and three to four complaints about trees falling over by the afternoon. SpiceJet said all departures and arrivals, and their related flights might be affected by the bad weather and asked passengers to check their flight status.
Northeast Monsoon
An active monsoon period and cyclonic activities in northeast Assam will likely bring heavy to very heavy rain with isolated extremely heavy downpours over northern West Bengal until Thursday, the weather department said. Other places in northern West Bengal that had very high rainfall during this time were Sevoke (170 mm), Buxaduar (150 mm), Nagrakata (140 mm), Jalpaiguri town (130 mm), and Bhutanghat (120 mm).
More than 2 million people have been affected by flooding in northeastern Assam. The Kaziranga National Park, home to the one-horned rhinoceros, was flooded, and six rhinos drowned, authorities said on Sunday.
State authorities said 66 people have died in floods and rain-related incidents since May.
Flooding has also affected 31 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, on the Nepal border, the state government said.
