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New Delhi: The monsoon will cover the entire country on Sunday (June 30). On Saturday (June 29), the monsoon advanced in many districts of Uttar Pradesh. Now only parts of Punjab, Haryana and western Rajasthan are left.
The Meteorological Department estimates that positive conditions remain for the advancement of monsoon. Usually the normal date for monsoon to cover the whole of India is July 8. However, this time it is likely to reach all the states a week earlier.
IMD has issued a heavy rain alert in UP, Uttarakhand, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra today. Orange alert is in force in these states till July 2. Yellow alert has been issued for Gujarat, Bihar, Bengal, Chhattisgarh. After July 2, the entire Central India will be under the grip of heavy rain.
Heavy rain alert has also been issued in the North-East states. There is a red alert in Arunachal Pradesh. Meghalaya, Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura are expected to receive 64.5 to 204.4mm rainfall between June 30 and July 3.
Less than normal rainfall in the country for the third consecutive year
Due to torrential rains in different parts of the country for two-three days, the rain deficit in June which was 19% till last Thursday (June 27) has come down to 14% on Saturday (June 29). Normally 157.7mm of rain should have occurred till June 29, but 136mm of rain has occurred till Saturday. This will be the third year when less than normal rainfall will be recorded in June. In 10 years, it has happened only four times that the rainfall has been more than normal.
Life is disrupted due to severe waterlogging after heavy rains in Dibrugarh, Assam. Flood situation has arisen here due to continuous rain for the last three days. CRPF camp, police camp, people’s houses are also flooded, roads are blocked. Power supply is completely stopped.
Monsoon entered Uttarakhand on 27 June. In just three days of rain, the dry river of Haridwar overflowed on Saturday (29 June). This created a flood-like situation. 8 cars were swept away in the strong current of water. Fortunately, there was no one in these cars. Apart from this, houses in low-lying areas were also flooded.
Ram Path collapsed after rain on 23-25 June in Ayodhya, UP. In this case, the UP government has suspended 6 people. Due to waterlogging, 15 lanes of Rampath and the main road, including many houses, collapsed.
