NEW DELHI: In what could come as some respite to flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, the weatherman today forecast “no major rainfall” in the Valley as well as in Jammu in the next four days and a decrease in rainfall activity in other parts of North India.
“There will be no major rainfall in the Valley as well as in Jammu in the next four days…Jammu may get respite,” said Laxman Singh Rathore, Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department.
While the monsoon was vigorous over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana during the last week, no major warning has been issued by the Met department for these states for the coming days.
Heavy rains lashed J&K, where several rivers are in spate. The state witnessed flood fury which claimed the lives of nearly 150 people and left many marooned.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall has been predicted at a few places with extremely heavy falls at isolated places over Telangana in the next couple of days including Vidarbha and Central Maharashtra.
At isolated places over Konkan, Goa and Marathwada, there will be heavy to very heavy rainfall, India Meteorological Department said in its bulletin today.
Heavy rainfall has been forecast in Konkan and Goa and central parts of Maharashtra, at isolated places in Gujarat, east Rajasthan, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and west Madhya Pradesh and parts of Karnataka, it said.
Meanwhile, the well marked low pressure over Odisha and adjoining Chhattisgarh persist. The Monsoon trough passes through Phalodi, Kota, Guna, Narsinghpur, the centre of well marked low pressure area over Odisha and adjoining Chhattisgarh, Gopalpur and thence southeastwards to eastcentral Bay of Bengal.
An upper air cyclonic circulation was over Haryana and adjoining West Uttar Pradesh, it said. (AGENCIES)
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