{"id":26072,"date":"2020-05-26T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/very-heavy-rainfall-expected-in-assam-meghalaya-from-may-26-28-imd-issues-red-alert\/"},"modified":"2020-05-26T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:17:41","slug":"very-heavy-rainfall-expected-in-assam-meghalaya-from-may-26-28-imd-issues-red-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26072","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very heavy\u2019 rainfall expected in Assam, Meghalaya from May 26-28, IMD issues red alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/very-heavy-rainfall-expected-in-assam-meghalaya-from-may-26-28-imd-issues-red-alert\/article31677778.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A red-colour coded weather alert has been issued for Assam and Meghalaya from May 26-28, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday, predicting very heavy rainfall in these two northeastern states. Sathi Devi, head of the IMD\u2019s national weather forecasting centre, said there is a strong flow of south-westerly winds from the Bay of Bengal, bringing a lot of moisture to these two states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is aided by the orographic factors of these two states that will bring in very heavy rainfall, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IMD said rainfall is likely at most places, with heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected at isolated places. A few isolated will also receive extremely heavy falls, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRed-colour coded warning has been issued to Assam and Meghalaya for the next three days,\u201d IMD director general Mrurunjay Mohapatra said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that northeast India gets maximum rainfall in June, followed by May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, advancement of the monsoon which was hindered by super cyclonic storm Amphan will start from Wednesday, Ms. Devi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added that the monsoon will start moving ahead in other parts of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago and Bay of Bengal from Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the IMD, the monsoon is likely to hit Kerala on June 5, four days after its normal onset date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A low pressure area is also building up in the Arabian Sea from May 30, Mohapatra said. A low pressure area is the first stage of any cyclone. However, it is not necessary that every low pressure area intensifies into a cyclone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IMD has also cautioned fishermen along the coasts of Kerala, Karnataka not to venture out for deep sea fishing from May 30-June 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI A red-colour coded weather alert has been issued for Assam and Meghalaya from May 26-28, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday, predicting very heavy rainfall in these two northeastern states. Sathi Devi, head of the IMD\u2019s national weather forecasting centre, said there is a strong flow of south-westerly winds from the Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}