IMD Issued Red Alert due to heavy rainfall in Karnataka these districts

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has on Sunday issued an “extremely heavy rain” alert for Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for next few days. The weather department has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy falls over parts of South India during the next five days. IMD issued Red alert due to heavy rainfall in Karnataka these districts.

The heaviest rainfall is expected to occur in Coastal and South Interior Karnataka, Kerala and Mahe, and Telangana. IMD issued red alert for Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada. And also issued an “orange alert” for several districts of Karnataka, including Belagavi, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Raichur, Bengaluru Rural, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Mysuru and Tumkuru districts, predicting “isolated- very heavy rains”.

The weather department has put the Chikkamagaluru, Hassan, Kodagu and Shivamogga districts of Karnataka under “yellow alert,” forecasting “isolated- heavy rains”. IMD said that light/moderate scattered to widespread rainfall is expected to happen in the region during the next 5 days.

“Isolated heavy to heavy rainfall is likely to happen over South Interior Karnataka, Coastal Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal, Kerala & Mahe during next 5 days; over Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam during 3 to 5 July with extremely heavy falls over Coastal & South Interior Karnataka on July 4 and over Kerala & Mahe on 4 & 5 July,” the weather department said in a press note.

 The weather department also advised fishermen not to move out into the Arabian Sea, saying that stormy weather with wind speeds gusting to 55 kmph is likely to prevail over the Karnataka coast during the next 24 hours.

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