RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY
Rainfall occurred at many places over Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, West Bengal, Kerala, coastal Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Jharkhand; at a few places over Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, coastal Andhra Pradesh , interior Karnataka, Meghalaya, Assam and Bihar; at one or two places over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, east Rajastha, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Tamilnadu and Nagaland. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country.
Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)
- Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over Orissa, Chattisgarh and north Andhra Pradesh during next 24 hours and decrease thereafter.
- Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over Gujarat region, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, coastal Karnataka and Kerala.
- Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over Uttarakhand, West Bengal & Sikkim, Assam & Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.
- Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, south interior Karnataka, Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
- Rain/thundershowers would occur at one or two places over rest parts of the country.
CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)
- There are 04 Moderate flood situation sites in the country as on 23.07.2012.
DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF)
- 31 Teams consisting of 1044 personnel of NDRF have been deployed in Assam –15, Andhra Pradesh – 01, Jharkhand-01, North Bengal-04, Maharashtra-03, Parliament house, New Delhi-01, J&K-02 and Bihar-04.