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Kerala is bracing for imaginable flooding and beardown winds connected Sunday (October 19, 2025) arsenic the North East Monsoon appears poised to further intensify implicit the State successful the adjacent 24 hours.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast dense to precise dense rains successful North Kerala. It has enactment Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod nether an orangish alert.
The IMD has issued a yellowish alert for Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad and Wayanad districts. It has besides forecast choppy littoral waters and cautioned fishers from putting their boats retired to sea.
Idukki worst hit
Kerala’s rugged Idukki territory bore the worst brunt of the monsoon connected Saturday (October 18, 2025), washing retired roads, knocking retired powerfulness lines, choking traffic, bringing down mobile telephone networks, disrupting net connectivity and causing insignificant mudslides.
The inclement upwind besides claimed its archetypal casualty successful Idukki connected Saturday (October 18, 2025). A 66-year-old antheral was killed erstwhile his two-wheeler was caught nether falling mud connected the Kumily-Anavilasom-Kattappana High adjacent Vellaramkunnu astatine astir 11.45 p.m. The territory constabulary identified the deceased arsenic Parappallil Thomas alias Thankachan.
The councillor of the Vellaramkunnu panchayat ward, Robin Karakkattu, told The Hindu successful Idukki that the mishap occurred erstwhile Thankachan was returning location aft closing his edifice astatine Anavilasom.
The rains wreaked havoc successful the Kumily panchayat. Overnight rains caused sweeping powerfulness outages, and gushing stormwater turned roads into rivers, washing distant vehicles and inundating residential and commercialized localities successful Onnam Mile, Atta Palam, Kumily town, Periyar Colony, Chelimala, Valiyakandan and Anavachal.
A resident, Jaison Thekkady, told The Hindu that the surging stormwater amazed scores of residents, forcing them to determination to precocious floors oregon houses of relatives successful higher crushed aft shifting household items to shelves and parapets supra the flood’s reach.
Mullaperiyar Dam
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu has cautioned Kerala that it would discharge h2o from the Mullaperiyar Reservoir into the Periyar River astatine 9 a.m. connected Sunday (October 19, 2025), fixed the dense precipitation implicit the dam’s catchment country and urgency to support the reservoir levels nether the information threshold.
On Saturday (October 18, 2025), the dam authorities had opened the reservoir’s 13 spillway shutters, releasing an estimated 9,403 cusecs of h2o into the Periyar River. The Kerala Government has warned residents surviving downstream of the Mullaperiyar dam to workout utmost caution.
Shaji Kurishumood, a nonmigratory of Vallakadavu abutting the banks of the Periyar River successful Idukki, said the merchandise of Mullaperiyar dam h2o had inundated astatine slightest 5 homes successful the locality.
Traffic disruption
Meanwhile, dense rains disrupted postulation on the Gudalloor-Kozhikode roadworthy passing done Manimoola successful the Malappuram district. The dense spell caused the h2o levels to emergence importantly successful the Karakodam, Kalakkad and Athithode Rivers successful the district.
Overnight rains caused minimal flooding successful Kochi, inconveniencing aboriginal greeting commuters, including two-wheeler riders.
