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Heavy rainfall lashed whitethorn parts of the State connected Friday and Saturday, leaving low-lying areas successful cities heavy waterlogged and causing large postulation disruptions. Movement of trains was besides disrupted. Some of the incoming trains to the Central Station successful Thiruvananthapuram were delayed arsenic postulation was affected by caving successful of world connected the tracks betwixt Nemom and Thiruvananthapuram. The postulation was aboriginal restored by the Railways by afternoon, Railway sources said.
City postulation was besides severely disrupted with rains battering the superior regions and adjoining areas including East Fort autobus stand, Pazhavangadi road, and Thampanoor, disrupting vehicular postulation and bringing low-lying areas successful the metropolis and its outskirts nether h2o for a while. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) which issued a yellowish alert for the superior connected Saturday upgraded the alert to orangish successful the evening informing of much aggravated spell.
The existent spell of rainfall, which caught the radical successful the superior unawares, was caused by the combined power of aggregate systems that persist successful the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, including a trough that runs from the cyclonic circulation implicit eastcentral Bay of Bengal to Lakshadweep country crossed westcentral Bay of Bengal, southwest Bay of Bengal and Comorin country astatine 5.8 km supra mean oversea level.
Meanwhile, the southwest monsoon has further precocious into immoderate much parts of southwest and southeast Arabian Sea, Lakshadweep Islands, Comorin area, southwest, southeast, westcentral and eastcentral Bay of Bengal, and immoderate parts of northeast Bay of Bengal connected Satuday, according to a upwind bulletin issued by the IMD connected Saturday. Conditions are favourable for further beforehand of southwest monsoon during the adjacent 4-5 days, said the bulletin.
Meanwhile, Urumi successful Kozhikode recorded highest rainfall of 11 cm during the past 24 hours ending astatine 8.30 a.m. connected Saturday followed by Ernakulam South with 10 cm, Kochi, Mattanchery and Palluruthy successful Ernakulam with 9 cm each, and Cherthala successful Alappuzha (8 cm). Thiruvananthapuram metropolis besides witnessed astir 6 cm rainfall during the day.
