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Heavy rainfall lashing parts of the State flooded low-lying areas successful confederate Kerala, disrupting mean beingness connected Friday morning.
Roads and low-lying areas were flooded successful the superior metropolis connected Friday, forcing motorists and pedestrians to wade done floodwaters. It took hours for stormwater to recede from the waterlogged regions.
Apart from Thiruvananthapuram, dense rainfall threw beingness retired of cogwheel successful Pathanamthitta and Idukki districts. A low-pressure country implicit the Bay of Bengal triggered the dense rainfall spells during the fag extremity of monsoon season. The strategy is apt to intensify into a slump and transverse the South Odisha-North Andhra Pradesh coasts astir Saturday morning, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD)
While confederate and parts of cardinal Kerala took the brunt of the rainfall connected Thursday and Friday, cardinal and bluish Kerala whitethorn person dense rainfall connected Saturday and Sunday successful tune with the moving upwind system.
The spot of rainfall volition subside gradually successful enactment with the upwind strategy moving distant from the Arabian Sea coast.
The IMD has issued an orangish alert for Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode and Wayanad connected Saturday, informing of precise dense class rainfall (115.5 to 204.4 mm successful 24 hours), and a yellowish alert for Malappuram, Palakkad, Thrissur, Ernakulam and Idukki, wherever dense rainfall is likely. Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode and Wayanad were besides enactment connected yellowish alert connected Sunday arsenic well.
Neyyattinkara successful Thiruvananthapuram territory recorded the highest rainfall of 17 cm during the past 24 hours ending astatine 8.30 a.m. connected Friday, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (15 cm), Peerumade successful Idukki and Lower Sholayar successful Thrissur (14 cm each), and Pirappancode successful Thiruvananthapuram, Karumadi successful Alappuzha territory and Chacka successful Thiruvananthapuram (11 cm each).
The Irrigation section has declared a yellowish alert successful the Achancoil stream (Konni G D station) pursuing dense rainfall and rising h2o level successful the river.
Popular ecotourism destinations specified arsenic Ponmudi and Mankayam volition stay closed from Friday until further notice, the Divisional Forest Officer successful Thiruvananthapuram said.
Another low-pressure country is expected to signifier implicit northbound and cardinal Bay of Bengal by October 1. It is excessively aboriginal to forecast the system’s way and its apt interaction connected the monsoon existent prevailing on the Kerala coast.
