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New Delhi, October 18
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted widespread rain with heavy to very heavy showers in several parts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh for tomorrow. Due to heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand, a red alert has been issued in Chamoli district. As a precautionary measure, Chardham yatra has been halted.
Meanwhile, heavy rains have been battering Kerala, triggering landslides and floods, wreaking havoc across Pathanamthitta, Kottayam and Idukki districts and leaving several persons dead.
With water levels rising due to heavy rains in the catchment areas in Kerala, a red alert has been issued for 10 dams in the state.
The weather office expects the rains to continue over south Peninsular India and islands with isolated heavy falls between October 23 and 25 as well. Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall are also likely over northeast and adjoining East India along with isolated to scattered rainfall over western Himalayan region, adjoining Punjab and northwest Rajasthan during the period.
Meanwhile, a fresh spell of easterly wave is likely to affect south Peninsular India from October 20 and cause fairly widespread to widespread rain with isolated heavy falls likely over Kerala and Mahe and Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal on October 20 and 22, it said. Meanwhile, the house of a bus driver from Mundakayam town in Kerala got swept away by the raging waters of Manimala river.
Kerala toll 38 since Oct 12
Wettest Oct in Delhi since 1960
94.6 mm rain recorded in Delhi in Oct
93.4 mm rain witnessed in Capital 1960
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