Goa Issues Red Alert Due To Heavy Rains

Goa Issues Red Alert Due To Heavy Rains

Panaji: With the rains throwing normal life out of gear in Goa for the third day on Friday, the India Meteorological Department predicted that the downpour will continue with the same intensity on Saturday too.

In neighbouring Maharashtra, cyclonic storm ‘Kyarr’ is likely to bring heavy showers in coastal districts of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg in the next 12 hours, the Met office said.

The Mumbai-Goa national highway was inundated at several places between Canacona and Margao on Friday. 

The water level of the Mandovi river was rising, restricting traffic to the islands of Chorao and Diwar.

“In view of the rising water level of the Mandovi, we have temporarily discontinued ferry services from these islands to the mainland,” a senior official from the River and Navigation Department said here.

An IMD bulletin said on Friday afternoon that very heavy rainfall is likely at one or two places in Goa on October 25-26. A depression over east-central Arabian Sea intensified into cyclonic storm Kyarr in the early morning of October 25 over the east-central Arabian Sea, it said.

“The Cyclonic Storm KYARR lay centred at 1130 hrs IST of today, the 25th October, near latitude 16.1N and longitude 71.8E over east-central Arabian Sea, about 190 km nearly to the west of Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), 350 km south-southwest of Mumbai and 1890 km east-southeast of Salalah (Oman),” it said.

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