Extreme monsoons have led to flooding in rivers across North India which is now spreading across the region leading to major destruction, deaths and disconnection of several parts due to electricity & internet issues.
Horrifying visuals were shared online by people from Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi. These showed vehicles being washed away in floods, parts of roads caved in, and bridges collapsing as water levels rose. Red alerts have been issued in Uttarakhand and ten districts of Himachal Pradesh as water levels rose in all major rivers, and floods and landslides battered the hill states.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the bodies of two soldiers who were washed away in flash floods in Poonch on July 8 were retrieved.
A flood warning was issued by the Delhi government, as Haryana released more than one lakh cusecs of water into the Yamuna river, wavy rains expected this week as well.
For other regions:
West India: Expect light to moderate widespread rainfall, with isolated heavy rainfall continuing over Konkan and Goa, as well as the ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra and Gujarat state for the next three days, followed by a decrease in rainfall.
East & Northeast India: Fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall is predicted, with isolated instances of heavy to very heavy rainfall in Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Assam & Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, and Manipur over the next five days. Odisha may experience isolated heavy rainfall, while Jharkhand will likely see it from July 10-12. Andaman & Nicobar Islands may have isolated heavy rainfall from Monday, and Bihar may experience heavy to very heavy rainfall from July 11-13.
Central India: Light to moderate widespread rainfall is expected, with isolated heavy rainfall across the region over the next five days. West Madhya Pradesh may experience isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall on Monday.
