The 7 Days Rainfall Forecast issued by the India Metrological Department on July 16.
Dimapur, July 16 (MExN): The Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) on Sunday informed there will be ‘incessant rain across the State till July 17.
This can cause road blockages, damages to properties, landslide, and flash flood, added the NSDMA in weather on mobile network.
Avoid hazard and risk zones, it advised.
The NSDMA further directed all agencies and departments to be “prepared for response to save lives.”
Meanwhile, in an update on Sunday evening, the India Metrological Department informed that Nagaland’s state capital Kohima was among the locations in India receiving significant rainfall amount on July 16.
It further forecasted “heavy rainfall” as well as ‘thunderstorm with lightning’ at isolated places over Nagaland and other NE States on July 17.
Likelihood of thunderstorm with lightning was also predicted on July 18.
However, the IMD’s 7 Days Rainfall Forecast issued on Sunday indicated scattered rainfall from July 19-21, before reverting to “Fairly Widespread/Many places” status on July 22.
A cyclonic circulation is likely to form over Northwest Bay of Bengal around July 18, it added.
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