Cyclone Midhili: With cyclone Midhili weakening into a deep depression, Tripura and Mizoram, which had been battered by heavy rain the day gone by, didn’t expertise showers right now (November 18), officers stated. According to the latest IMD (India Meteorological Department) replace, the cyclonic storm, after crossing the Bangladesh coast, has weakened into a deep depression and lay 50 km east-southeast of Tripura’s capital Agartala.
Skies remained clear in Mizoram, whereas overcast circumstances prevailed in Tripura however neither of the northeastern states acquired any fresh rain because the early hours of Saturday.
No damages have been reported to this point. Sundarbans space in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district acquired gentle showers on Friday however didn’t witness any fresh rainfall on Saturday. Fishermen, nonetheless, didn’t enterprise into deep seas as suggested by the Met division.
“Deep depression (remnant of cyclonic storm Midhili) over Tripura and adjoining Bangladesh weakened into a depression and lay about 50 km east-southeast of Agartala and 160 km southwest of Silchar. To weaken into a WML (well-marked low pressure area) over south Assam and adjoining Mizoram-Tripura during next six hours,” an IMD bulletin issued on Saturday morning stated.
IMD heavy rain alert:
In view of the sooner IMD prediction of heavy rain, the Tripura authorities declared a vacation on Saturday for all authorities and personal colleges and anganwadi centres within the state. Chief Minister Manik Saha, who’s presently in Delhi, stated in a Facebook submit on Friday: “The meteorological department has predicted heavy rainfall with high velocity wind and lightning for two days i.e.Friday and Saturday due to cyclonic storm Midhili.”
“The state administration is fully ready to meet any eventuality. Considering the gravity of the alert, all the government and private schools and anganwadi centres will remain closed on Saturday,” he added.
In a particular bulletin, the met division had stated, “Under the influence of the cyclonic storm, an increase in rainfall activities accompanied with heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely to occur over Tripura during 17th and 18th November.”
Due to heavy showers coupled with gusty wind, air companies had been badly affected at Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala on Friday as three scheduled flights, two from Kolkata and one from Guwahati, couldn’t land on the runway, an official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) stated. However, flight companies remained unaffected on Saturday as no fresh rainfall was witnessed since 4:00 am on Saturday.
On Friday, heavy rainfall affected regular life in Tripura as most individuals remained at residence, whereas energy provide was affected in some areas of Agartala.
(With companies inputs)
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