RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY
Rainfall occurred at a few places over Andaman & Nicobar Island and at one or two places over northeastern states, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, interior Karnataka, interior Maharashtra and Gujarat. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country. The chief amounts of rainfall (1 cm and above) recorded at 1730 hours IST of yesterday were: Mayabandar and Shillong7 each; Kandla4; Long Island and Belgaum3 each and Ongole1.
Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, coastal Tamilnadu & Puduchery and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over interior Tamilnadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Karnataka and Telangana during next 24 hours and increase thereafter.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam & Meghalaya during next 24 hours and at many places thereafter.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at one or two places over south Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Vidarbha, south Chhattisgarh, West Bengal & Sikkim, Marathawada, Madhya Maharashtra and Konkan & Goa.
• Weather would be mainly dry over rest of the country.
CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)
There are 8 Moderate flood situation sites in the country as on 28.09.2012.
DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF)
16 Teams consisting of 454 personnel of NDRF have been deployed in Assam –08, Andhra Pradesh-01, Maharashtra-03 and Bihar-04