RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY
Rain/thundershower has occurred at most places along west coast, over Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh; at many places over Odisha, Sub Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Jharkhand, Gujarat region and Vidarbha; at a few places over Bihar, Saurashtra & Kutch and north Andhra Pradesh and at one or two places over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The chief amount of rainfall (3 cm or more) recorded at 1730 hours IST of yesterday were: Ratlam-8, Daltongunj-7, Indore, Cannur and Shirali-6 each, Sagar, Titlagarh, Kota and Rajgarh-5 each; Shantiniketan, Durg and Agumbe-4 each and Damoh, Panchmari, Rajnandgaon, Mahabaleshwar, Bhira and Jhansi-3 each.
Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at most places along west coast.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at most places over Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha during next 24 hours and at many places thereafter.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over east Rajasthan, Gujarat state, Madhya Maharashtra, south interior Karnataka, Sub Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, northeastern states, Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, north interior Karnataka and Marathawada.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at one or two places over Tamil Nadu.
CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)
There are 01 High flood and 16 Moderate flood situation sites in the country as on 27.07.2013.
DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF)
37 teams of NDRF consisting of 1396 personnel have been deployed in Assam (5), West Bengal (2), Jharkhand (1), Odisha (1) Maharashtra (3), Punjab (4), Uttarakhand (7), Bihar (6) and A.P (8)