NE NEWS SERVICE
KOCHI, OCT 19
After a brief respite of two days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued an Orange alert for 11 districts of Kerala indicating heavy rainfall. The weatherman has put 12 districts in the state on Orange alert on Thursday also.
UPDATE | #KeralaRains
3 shutters of Idukki dam raised, high alert issued to people residing close to river Periyar pic.twitter.com/98Ji9MHwpl
— DD News (@DDNewslive) October 19, 2021
The IMD sounded an Orange alert for Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur districts on October 20.
South Interior Karnataka during 20th -23rd October. Isolated very heavy falls also very likely over Kerala & Mahe and Tamilnadu, Puducherry & Karaikal on 20th & 21st October.
For detailed Report kindly visit the following link:https://t.co/tKppM0SygW pic.twitter.com/mzZmzBUnGo
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) October 19, 2021
An Orange alert has been issued for all districts other than Kannur and Kasaragod on October 21. A Red alert indicates heavy to extremely heavy rains of over 20 cm in 24 hours, while Orange alert denotes very heavy rains from 6 cm to 20 cm of rains. A yellow alert means heavy rainfall between 6 and 11 cm.
Kerala was ravaged by heavy downpour and subsequent landslides in the south-central districts On October 15 and 16 which resulted in the loss of 24 lives. The search and rescue operations are still going on. Apart from that, the dams in the state are on a brim with Red alert sounded for over ten major dams in the state. Idukki, Idamalayar, Pamba and Kakki, four major dams among the total 78 dams in the state have been opened to release the excess water.
"It was my livelihood. Everything is gone."
Thousands have been evacuated as heavy rains cause massive flooding and landslides in India’s southern state of Kerala.pic.twitter.com/N33Uue1bVc
— DW Asia (@dw_hotspotasia) October 19, 2021
Various district administrations have issued alerts to the people living downstream and shifted them to relief camps set up in the state.
