Orange Alert for Heavy Rainfall in Several States
AMN/ WEB DESK
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for extremely heavy rainfall in Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, Gujarat, Konkan, and Goa tomorrow. An orange alert has been issued for heavy to very heavy rainfall in Chhattisgarh, Eastern Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Coastal Karnataka, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and Bihar. IMD said the low-pressure area over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Jharkhand persists and associated cyclonic circulation in middle and upper tropospheric levels. It is likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify into a depression over Jharkhand and the neighbourhood during the next 24 hours.