RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY
Rainfall occurred at many places over coastal Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands; at a few places over northeastern states, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Rayalaseema and at one or two places over Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Konkan & Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, interior Karnataka and Tamilnadu & Puducherry. Weather remained mainly dry over rest part of the country. The chief amounts of rainfall (1 cm and above) recorded at 1730 hours IST of yesterday were: Narsapur-4; Long Island and Lumding2 each; Bhawanipatha, Hirakund, Kalingapatam, Ongole, Kolkata( Alipore) and Ambikapur-1 each.
Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, coastal Tamilnadu & Pudducherry, northeastern states and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Odisha, West Bengal & Sikkim, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh and over interior Tamilnadu and Kerala during next 48 hours.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at one or two places over western Himalayan region and Bihar.
• Weather would be mainly dry over rest of the country.
CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)
There are 3 Moderate flood situation sites in the country as on 30.09.2012.
DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF)
16 Teams consisting of 444 personnel of NDRF have been deployed in Assam –08, Andhra Pradesh-01, Maharashtra-03 and Bihar-04