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ITANAGAR, Jun 14: The monsoon activity over Northeast India will continue in full force this week as well, with more extremely heavy downpours forecast in several parts of the region including Arunachal Pradesh which will remain on red alert for the majority of this forecast period.
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the prevalence of strong southwesterly winds blowing onto Northeast India from the Bay of Bengal will lead to the continuation of the intense wet spell over the region.
Under their influence, isolated heavy to very heavy rains (64.5 to 204 mm) are very likely over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the next five days (June 14-18); and over Nagaland and Manipur from Wednesday to Friday, June 15-17.
Furthermore, Assam and Meghalaya will also be in for isolated extremely heavy downpours (204 mm) for this five-day period, while Arunachal may experience similar conditions on Wednesday and Thursday, June 15-16.
According to weather.com meteorologists, the daily precipitation in the region could be as high as 150-200 mm. And with the total five-day rainfall likely to pile up beyond 500 mm, flooding and landslides will be genuine possibilities across the northeastern states this week.
In view of these predictions, Assam and Meghalaya have been placed on a red warning during the entirety of this forecast period; the alert instructs their residents to ‘take action’ in order to protect themselves from inclement weather. The rest of the northeastern states, meanwhile, will be placed under an orange alert, which urges the people to ‘be prepared’ for rough conditions.
Between June 1 and 13, Meghalaya (555mm) has recorded a whopping 120% ‘large excess’ rainfall as compared to its long-term average for this period, whereas the rains over Arunachal (181.7 mm), Assam (177.2 mm), Nagaland (97.4 mm) and Sikkim (189.6 mm) have remained in the ‘normal’ category.
But on the flip side, Mizoram (72 mm) and Manipur (58.4 mm) have recorded ‘deficit’ precipitation figures, while Tripura (79.9 mm) has suffered a ‘large deficit’ thus far.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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