North India is witnessing heavy rainfall with major cities and towns water logged. Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have witnessed rain and snowfall in most areas. Rain and thundershowers also occurred at most places in Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
With severe rains, the entire Delhi and NCR is waterlogged. Vehicular movement has been severely affected in Ayanagar, Gandhinagar, Mandavali, Ambedkar Nagar, Dhaula Kuan, Saket Press Enclave Road and Ashram among several other places of the city.
Jammu-Srinagar highway has also been closed due to heavy snowfall and landslides.
Even southern region of the country including many places in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are witnessing rainfall. Some places in Maharashtra are also seeing rainfall. Maximum temperatures are below normal by 815°C at most places over Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan.
The Met department said that due to deepening of the westerly trough into central Arabian Sea, the wind confluence is continuing over central India and neighbourhood.
Unseasonal rains have caused severe damage to standing crops across North India. In Gujarat crops of wheat, groundnut, cotton and onion, have been adversely affected particularly in the Saurashtra region of the state. The Meteorological Centre in Ahmedabad said, upper-air cyclonic circulation over South Pakistan and adjoining Kutch area has caused rainfall over Gujarat.
"Moderate to heavy rainfall was reported in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Kheda and Vadodara districts of central Gujarat," the official release said. Amreli, Bhavnagar, Devboomi- Dwarka, Okha, Porbandar, Rajkot, Veraval and Gir Somnath districts of the state have also witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall. There was a light rainfall in Kutch region today, it said.
Farmers have suffered huge losses due to the unseasonal downpour. "There was a ready stock of pulses, groundnut and cotton put in various marketing-yards of Saurashtra. As far as Savarkundla Marketing Yard is concerned, it bears the loss of around Rs 25 lakh," former chairman of Savarkundla Marketing yard in Amreli district Mahesh Sudada said.
"Farmers had started shifting their wheat crops in marketing yard since last two weeks, but the untimely rainfall has damaged the ready crop and cost a loss of around Rs 1.50 crore in Kodinar marketing yard," Chairman of Kodinar Marketing yard in Gir Somanath district Subhash Dodiya said.
In an unfortunate incident, two people died of lightning and electrocution as untimely rains lashed the Amravati district of Maharashtra. According to the police, Kumarji and her daughter Babli (18) were working in the farm of Nandu Lohiya in Umri village in Daryapur tehsil of the district, when it rained heavily.
Lightning fell on them and both of them suffered serious injuries. In another incident, Gaurav Sudhakar Hambarde (16) of Umri got electrocuted while removing sheaves of tur from the roof and died on the spot.####
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