Southwest Monsoon-2014: Daily flood situation report summary of important events as on 26.09.2014

RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY

• ♦ The southwest monsoon has further withdrawn from some parts of Punjab and Haryana, remaining

parts of West Rajasthan,some parts of East Rajasthan and some more parts of Gujarat. ♦ The withdrawal line of southwest monsoon passes through Amritsar, Hissar, Jaipur, Deesa, Naliya, 23.0°N/65.0°E and 23.0°N/60.0°E.

♦ Conditions are favourable for further withdrawal of southwest monsoon from some more parts of

northwest India and some more parts of central India during next 2­3 days.

♦ The southwest monsoon has been active over South Interior Karnataka.

Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)

Rain/thundershowers has occurred at many places over Sub­Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan & Goa, Coastal Karnataka, South Interior Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu; at a few places over Gangetic West Bengal, Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands and at isolated places over Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Coastal Andhra Pradesh. Weather remained mainly dry / dry over rest parts of the country. The amounts of rainfall (2 cm or more) recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Bangaluru­13; North Lakhimpur­11; Cherrapunji­10; Punalur­9, Dhubri­8; Tirupattur­7; Pune­6; Harnai and Udhagamandalam­5 each; Pasighat and Honavar­4 each; Silchar and Nasik­3 each; Balurghat, Ratnagiri, Salem, Kodaikanal, Minicoy and Port Blair­2 each.

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

According to the Central Water Commission (CWC) report dated 26.09.2014, there are 05 Moderate Flood situation sites in the country.

DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF)

50 teams personnel consisting of total 1973 personnel of NDRF have been deployed in Assam – (9), A&N– (1), A.P– (02), Bihar-(01), Delhi– (1), H.P- (2), Jharkhand– (1), J&K – (04), Karnataka- (1), Kerala- (1), Meghalaya-(04), Mizoram- (1), Maharashtra – (3), M.P-(1), Odisha-(1), Rajasthan – (1), Sikkim –(2), Tripura –(1), Tamilnadu – (1), Uttarakhand- (5), UP -(3) & West Bengal- (4).