The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued Yellow alert over Assam and other parts of northeast region of India while predicting heavy to heavy rainfall till September 24.
The Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati has issued a yellow alert for several districts in Assam indicating thunder and lightning with heavy to very heavy rainfall will September 24.
State level weather warning for North Eastern states #thunderlightning #heavyrain pic.twitter.com/9oz6lJAzoB
— RWFC Guwahati (@GuwahatiRmc) September 20, 2023
A special bulleting reported on September 19 by the IMD stated, “Under the influence of the cyclonic circulation over Northwest & adjoining Central Bay of Bengal, a Low Pressure Area has formed over northwest Bay of Bengal off West Bengal-Odisha coasts. Associated cyclonic circulation extends upto 7.6 km above mean sea level tilting southwestwards with height. It is likely to move west-northwestwards across North Odisha &South Jharkhand during next 2 days. Associated with this system fairly widespread to wide spread rainfall activity with heavy rainfall/Thunderstorm is very likely to occur over Assam during next 2 days.”
It needs mention here, the weather bureau has alerted the northeast region of heavy rainfall in the coming days as cyclonic circulation accompanied with moisture increased precipitation in the region.
