RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY
♦ The southwest monsoon has been vigorous over West Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha and active over Marathwada and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)
Rain/thundershowers has occurred at most places over Gangetic West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha, Coastal Karnataka and Andaman & Nicobar Islands; at many places over Assam & Meghalaya, East Rajasthan, Odisha, Gujarat region, Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan & Goa and Kerala; at a few places over Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Interior Karnataka and Telangana at isolated places over Uttarakhand, West Uttar Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Lakshadweep. Weather remained mainly dry/dry over rest parts of the country. The amounts of rainfall (4 cm or more) recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Khandwa37; Dhar & Hoshangabad15 each; Khargone13; Cherrapunji & Buldana11 each; Wardha10; Indore & Brahmapuri9 each; Chandrapur8; Akola, Nagpur & Adilabad7 each; Silchar, Betul, Amroati & Washim6 each; Lengpui5 and Halflong & Rajgarh4 each.
CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)
According to the Central Water Commission (CWC) report dated 08.09.2014, there are 04 Moderate flood situation sites in the country.
DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF
66 teams consisting of total 2699 personnel of NDRF have been deployed in Assam - (5), A&N– (1), A.P– (1), Bihar-(9), Delhi– (1), H.P- (2), Jharkhand– (1), J&K – (17), Karnataka- (1), Kerala- (2), Mizoram- (1), Maharashtra – (3), M.P-(01), Odisha-(1), Rajasthan – (1), Sikkim –(2), Tripura –(1), Tamilnadu – (1), Uttarakhand- (5), UP -(3), Telangana-03, West Bengal- (4).