Karnataka Weather News Updates: Rain takes break; Orange alert for coastal areas

Army helicopters in Jayashankar Bhoopalpalli to carry out rescue operations.

Telangana witnessed monsoon fury in early hours of Thursday with two districts recording over 60cm rainfall. The extremely heavy rainfall occured in Venkatapur mandal of Mulugu and Chityal mandal of Bhupalpally clocking 64cm and 61cm of rain in last 24 hour span respectively. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for nine of the 33 districts in the state on account of relentless rains and swollen river bodies all across East and Central Telangana.

All 80 tourists who were stuck at Mutyaladara waterfall, located deep in the forest in Mulugu district, have been rescued, informed Mulugu superintendent of police (SP) Gaush Alam. District administration and police had launched a rescue operation on Wednesday to rescue them. Rivulets and streams are in spate in Venkatapuram as the area received 19cm rainfall on Wednesday. The tourists, mostly from Warangal, went to Mutyaladara, located seven kilometres from the Venkatapuram main road in a thick forest area, on a pleasure trip.

Heavy rain continued to batter most districts in Karnataka on Tuesday, with three deaths reported from across the state during the day and key reservoirs receiving heavy inflows. The state has so far seen seven deaths in a week.With the Met department sounding a red alert in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Uttara Kannada districts for Wednesday too, water level in the rivers in the region is already flowing close to the danger mark.

Water from Hindon river inundated a parking yard of a cab aggregator on the floodplains in Gr Noida’s Ecotech 3 on Tuesday. For the fourth day, the river flowed close to danger mark. While thousands have been evacuated from homes next to the river, efforts are on to remove layers of hyacinth which are impeding the river’s flow and raising inundation risk. On Tuesday, a woman who returned to her flooded home to feed her cattle in Ghaziabad’s Ator village drowned in a flooded pit. She is the sixth person to drown in floodwaters in Noida and Ghaziabad in the past 10 days. With two substations submerged in Ghaziabad, several residential colonies reported outages spanning 5-20 hours.

While children were getting ready for school, there was no communication from the school about the rain holiday. However, the school administration and the entire department woke up when the children reached the school. According to parents, some children were standing at the gate to catch the school bus, while some had already reached the school when messages started coming through on their phones. The students later returned to their homes after the school closure anouncement.

Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration announced that all schools up to class 12 in Noida and Greater Noida will remain closed on Wednesday due to heavy rainfall and waterlogging.Parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) received heavy rainfall this morning, leading to waterlogging in several areas.