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Intermittent dense rainfall accompanied by beardown winds lashed respective parts of Kerala causing inundation and postulation snarls determination connected Monday (October 20, 2025).
The precocious ranges of confederate Thiruvananthapuram and bluish Kozhikode districts experienced wide rains and overcast clime passim the day. Heavy downpour that lasted for astir an hr caused waterlogging successful Thiruvananthapuram-Thenkasi road.
Road postulation was interrupted successful Elavattom successful Palode roadworthy besides for immoderate clip owed to inundation successful the evening.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orangish alert successful 4 districts -Ernakulam, Idukki, Malappuram and Kozhikode - predicting precise dense rainfall. The remainder of the districts were placed nether a yellowish alert.
In the aftermath of dense rain, the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) asked radical surviving successful areas prone to landslides, mudslides, and flash floods to determination to safer locations arsenic directed by officials concerned.
Residents surviving on riverbanks and successful areas downstream of dams should besides relocate successful advance, pursuing authoritative instructions, successful presumption of imaginable danger, the SDMA said successful a statement.
An orangish alert refers to precise dense rainfall of 11 cm to 20 cm, and a yellowish alert means dense rainfall betwixt 6 cm and 11 cm.
