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Overnight dense rainfall and beardown winds successful State brought down trees and powerfulness lines, damaging houses and vehicles and causing powerfulness outages and postulation disruptions successful respective areas.
The dense rainfall continued connected Friday, resulting successful waterlogging successful low-lying areas crossed the State and a emergence successful h2o levels successful assorted rivers.
Water levels successful respective dams, including Walayar, Malampuzha, Moolathara, and Chuliyar successful Palakkad, approached their maximum retention capacities, prompting authorities to unfastened the shutters by respective centimetres. A akin concern was reported successful Thrissur district, wherever 4 spillway shutters of the Peechi dam were opened by respective centimetres.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orangish alert for 4 districts—Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kannur, and Kasaragod—for the day.
The IMD besides predicted thunderstorms with “moderate to dense rainfall” and maximum aboveground upwind speeds reaching up to 50 kmph successful gusts astatine isolated places crossed the State.
