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Southwest Monsoon-2011: Daily flood situation report 01 Sep 2011

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RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY

  • Moderate to heavy rainfall with isolated very heavy falls have been reported in some parts of Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Lakshadweep, Odissa, Goa, Gujarat & And & Nicobar Islands.

Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)

  • Widespread rain/thundershowers would occur along west coast and over south Madhya Pradesh, interior Maharashtra and Gujarat Region during next 48 hours and decrease thereafter.

  • Fairly widespread rain/thundershowers would occur over Western Himalayan Region and adjoining plains of northwest India, north Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, north coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, interior Karnataka,Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

  • Scattered rain/thundershowers would occur over remaining parts of the country.

CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)

  • There are 13 Moderate flood situation sites (Bihar-09, Uttar Pradesh-02, Jharkhand-01, West Bengal -01) in the country on 01.09.2011.

DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF)

  • 18 teams consisting of 518 personnel of NDRF have been deployed in Assam - (5),Andhra Pradesh – (2), Kerala – (1), Parliament House New Delhi- (1), Punjab (2), Uttar Pradesh (2) & Bihar (5).