Cyclone Dana made landfall past midnight on Thursday between Bhitarkanika National Park and Dhamara in Odisha, around 160km from Sagar Islands, but battered Kolkata with an average of 100mm rain in a day — the second-highest precipitation in a single day since Oct 26, 2013, when the city had received 109.5mm rain.
Since landfall, after Dana's long tail started to show its sting, a total of four deaths were reported across Bengal, of which one was in Kolkata. None of these deaths was directly attributed to the storm's fury, however.
Three of the deaths were from electrocution: in south Kolkata's Bhowanipore, 20-year-old Saurabh Prasad Gupta was electrocuted to death in a waterlogged street; a person died of electrocution in Patharpratima, South 24 Parganas, while trying to fix broken cables in his home; and, on Friday morning, civic volunteer Chandan Hazra (32), accompanying a police team, was electrocuted to death when he accidentally touched a live wire in Bud Bud, Burdwan East.
Fijians living in the central division are being advised limit any unnecessary travels, as over a dozen roads and crossing are closed due to flooding.
Local media report that several homes in some parts of the division have been submerged underwater from heavy rainfall overnight.
The Fiji Metservice says a low pressure system is moving over the country, with associated cloud and rain forcasted to affect the central, eastern, and northern divisions until tomorrow.
Fiji Police are urging motorists to drive carefully and to supervise our children at all times.
Watch the video, monitoring the formation of a waterspout off the coast of the Jazan region this afternoon, Friday 10-25-2004. Below are the captured scenes of the waterspout as they were circulated and published today by several tweeters via the X platform:
Uruguay registered rain and storms on Wednesday that affected several areas of the country, but some departments were the most affected. Paysandú (on the Uruguayan coast, bordering Argentina) was one of the places that suffered the greatest consequences of the inclement weather. In videos posted on social media, it was possible to see flooded streets and dump trucks in the middle of the street.
The strongest wind gusts in the area were 76 kilometers per hour in that department, according to data from the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) reported by the Uruguayan news program Subrayado on Channel 10. The general secretary of the Paysandú Municipality, Fermín Farinha, declared that since Monday the municipal government had a protocol established due to the meteorological announcements that there were.
Rain that fell for two consecutive days in many cities and regions of Azerbaijan, including Baku, has caused a series of complications. Roads, tunnels, and residential areas have been flooded, cars, homes, and yards remain under rainwater, and people find themselves helpless in areas surrounded by water.
Reports indicate that two people have died. Emergency Ministry personnel retrieved the bodies of Elnur Fazil oglu Shirinov, born in 1976, and Koceri Farman oglu Abbasov, born in 1995, from a flooded tunnel in the Sabunchu district of Baku.
On October 22, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Executive Authority of Baku, and the State Agency for Water Resources of Azerbaijan released a joint statement regarding the mitigation of damage caused by the rains.
"According to meteorologists, as of October 22 at 9:00 AM, the rainfall in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula reached 86 mm (306% of the monthly norm).
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean near the northern Kuril Islands at around 01:38 Oct. 24. The epicenter was about 145 km (90 miles) south of Severo-Kuril'sk.
The tremor occurred at a depth of about 49 km (30 miles), and light shaking was probably felt throughout parts of the Kuril Islands and far southern Kamchatka Peninsula.
There have been no initial reports of damage or casualties as a result of the earthquake; however, significant damage is unlikely due to the offshore nature of the quake.
It could take several hours until authorities can conduct comprehensive damage assessments, especially in remote areas. Light-to-moderate aftershocks are likely over the coming days.
The event has not prompted any tsunami advisories.
Kashish Tandon, Nandan Mandayam and Varunvyas Hebbalalu Reuters Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:23 UTC
Schools were shut and people worked from home in India's tech hub of Bengaluru on Wednesday after the heaviest rains in nearly three decades again brought the city to a standstill.
Bengaluru has become hostage to the monsoon rains in recent years, with flooded roads, uprooted trees and choked drains becoming an annual feature in the city of 14 million.
This year, a weather station in the northern part of the city recorded rainfall of 186 mm (7.3 inches) on Monday, the highest in a single day recorded in the city since 1997.
As of Tuesday, Bengaluru had received 211.7 mm of rain this month, nearly double the rain normally seen during this period, according to data from the India Meteorological Department.
The resulting disruption has renewed concerns about unplanned development of "India's Silicon Valley", which is home to thousands of startups and global companies from Walmart (WMT.N), to Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), Google.
"If it rains for even half an hour, flooding happens," said Saurabh Kumar, a Wipro (WIPR.NS), employee who resides in an apartment complex that uses tractors to ferry residents to and from the entrance when it rains.
A waterspout suddenly appeared in the sea of Nhon Hai commune, Quy Nhon city, Binh Dinh province
On October 22, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nhon Hai Commune (Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh) Do Cao Thang said that at around 10:7 a.m. the same day, a waterspout appeared on the sea in the locality.
According to the Chairman of the People's Committee of Nhon Hai commune, the waterspout phenomenon appeared at sea but did not affect or damage the fishing boats of local fishermen.
According to the Binh Dinh Province Hydrometeorological Station, on October 22, there will be scattered rain in Binh Dinh province, with level 10 winds and level 3 gusts in the sea.
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