Page 39 - Heavy Rainfall News Today

At the district headquarters, many areas of Englishbazar municipality got waterlogged for the second time in the past 10 days

Amidst the incessant rains in the state for the past few days, the IMD, (RMC), Guwahati, has sounded a fresh alert in the state.

Tropical Storm Philippe is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rainfall to New England and Canada over the weekend.

Tuesday night’s natural disaster has also left hundreds of tourists stranded in Sikkim. As road connectivity has virtually snapped, with only a few narrow detours open, tourists in Sikkim are frantically trying to return home

Singtam is situated at 1,300ft and many there lie on the bank of the Teesta that overflew following a cloudburst at the glacier-fed South Lhonak lake in the Himalayan state

'There is a forecast of heavy to very heavy rainfall (70mm to 200mm) during the next couple of days in Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, Sikkim, and Birbhum and Murshidabad. A red alert on rainfall has been rung across Sikkim,' said a source in the regional Met office, Calcutta

Isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely in west Assam and Meghalaya on Wednesday and Thursday.

Sources in the state administration said the evacuation of people had started around 3am on Wednesday when the chief secretary of Sikkim had sent a message regarding the cloudburst and subsequent flash flood in the Teesta river

The Darjeeling-Sikkim region received four days of continuous rainfall between October 2 and 5 back in 1968, which triggered hundreds of landslides, swept houses and bridges and killed around 1,000 people

Tropical Storm Philippe is on track to deliver a dreary weekend to the Northeast, including a slug of tropical moisture which is raising the risk of flooding rainfall in an area that has been soaked repeatedly in recent weeks.