RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY
Rain/thundershowers has occurred at most places over West Bengal & Sikkim, Assam & Meghalaya and Andaman & Nicobar Islands; at many places over east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura and Kerala; at a few places over east Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, north coastal Andhra Pradesh and Lakshadweep and at isolated places over Uttarakhand, west Uttar Pradesh, south Gujarat and interior Tamilnadu. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country. The chief amounts of rainfall (1 cm or more) recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are : Cherrapunji-15,Behrampur, Bangalura, Shantiniketan and Car Nicobar-8 each; North Lakhimpur, Canning, Bilaspur and Waltair-6 each; Panagarh and Gorakhpur-5 each; Burdwan-4; Itanagar, Port Blair, Patna, Tangla, Nancowry, Kodaikanal, Coonoor and Dehradun-3 each; Gangtok, Jalpaiguri, Balasore, Cooch Behar, Jabalpur, Gadag, Gulbarga, Bangaluru(A/P), Valparai and Minicoy-2 each and Kolkata(Dum-Dum), Bhagalpur, Bankura, Tadong, Shillong, Dibrugarh, Passighat, Log Islands, Umaria, Pendra, Salem, Palakkad and Varanasi-1 each.
Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal & Sikkim, northeastern states and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over east Uttar Pradesh, north Chhattisgarh, Lakshadweep and Kerala during next 24 hours and decrease thereafter.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Uttarakhand, east Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Konkan & Goa, Karnataka and Tamilnadu.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at isolated places over Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, east Rajasthan, west Uttar Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, Konkan & Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada and Vidarbha.
• Weather would mainly dry over west Rajasthan and Gujarat state.
CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)
There are 01 Unprecedented, 05 High and 15 Moderate flood situation sites in the country as on 02.09.2013.