There is no doubt that Monsoon brings relief for many people in India. Farmers are the ones who make the most of the Monsoon rains that are also instrumental in bolstering the country’s economy. But there have been cases when Monsoon has been the root of floods over all across India.
The country is witnessing multiple flooding situations in various places. At present, a low-pressure area has formed over Northwest Bay of Bengal and has gradually intensified into a deep depression and moved across Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh up to Rajasthan.
This system has given fairly widespread heavy rains with extremely heavy rains at a few places during last one week. These heavy rains are the reason that has triggered floods in many parts of Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Wall of a school building collapses in Madhya Pradesh's Chattarpur due to heavy downpour, no injuries. pic.twitter.com/YE4ybtCzMy
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 22, 2016
Most of the rivers and their tributaries in the region are still flowing above danger level mark. However, rains have stopped now over East Madhya Pradesh and intensity of rain has reduced considerably.
But a fresh low-pressure area which formed yesterday over Bangladesh and West Bengal has now intensified into a well-marked low-pressure area and at present is lying over West Bengal and Jharkhand.
This weather system has already given fairly widespread moderate to heavy rains over West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha and some parts of Chhattisgarh. Now intensity of rain is once again expected to increase over Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, East Uttar Pradesh and East Madhya Pradesh.
And we expect the ongoing flood situation will get even worse with this fresh spell of heavy rains. These two back to back weather systems will continue to give heavy rains over the region. The second weather system will move rapidly towards West Madhya Pradesh and in next 2-3 days it will start giving heavy rains over East Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Many parts of East Rajasthan are also flooded, so we can say that for next 3-4 days, the flood situation over all these states will continue to remain the way they are. The relief from this rainfall is expected after 3-4 days as the rain intensity will go down and rains will start receding.
According to media reports, this flood situation in East India has been worst since 1975. The flooding situation will take around a week or more to normalize. The civic authorities along with National Disaster Relief Force are trying to safeguard as many people as they can.
Gaya (Bihar): Part of a bridge a swept in Nawada area as water level of Paimar River crosses the danger mark. pic.twitter.com/c8KNBuQj2x
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 22, 2016
Aerial view of flood situation in Allahabad
Picture Courtesy: ANIpic.twitter.com/6vdNGal04p— Times of India (@timesofindia) August 22, 2016
Flood rescue and relief operation by NDRF https://t.co/6ls89AWw46 pic.twitter.com/jV7fxSPj8I
— PIB India (@PIB_India) August 22, 2016
Flood like situation and water logging, normal life affected in Ujjain(Madhya Pradesh) pic.twitter.com/s8T6a0qls3
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 21, 2016
Image Credit: The Guardian
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