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The long Indian coastline has seen a sea of change in weather conditions this year. Cyclones, heavy rains and floods have battered the regions of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and Karnataka throughout 2021.
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However, their ordeal is not yet over as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted “above-normal” rainfall for the coastal states till February 2022.
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“Our prediction for above-normal rainfall for December to February is for coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, south-interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, inner Puducherry and Kerala. Below normal rainfall probability is predicted for northwest India, thus their average temperature is expected to stay above normal,” the IMD said on Wednesday.
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India has seen 645 events of heavy rainfall and 168 of very heavy rainfall in November alone, the highest for the month in over five years.
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Peninsular India witnessed most of the ‘extremely heavy to very heavy rainfall’ deluge, which claimed 44 lives in Andhra Pradesh, 16 in Tamil Nadu, 15 in Karnataka and three in Kerala.
Our prediction for above-normal rainfall for Dec to Feb is for coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, south-interior Karnataka TN, inner Puducherry & Kerala. Below normal rainfall probability is predicted for NW India, thus their average temp is expected to stay above normal: IMD pic.twitter.com/IQCtvARFFB
— ANI (@ANI) December 1, 2021
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The country has had 11 extremely heavy rainfall (over 204.5 mm) events in November alone, equaling last year. India reported zero, four and one event of extremely heavy rainfall in November in 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
“The country saw 645 events of heavy rainfall (64.5 mm to 115.5 mm) and 168 events of very heavy rainfall (115.6 mm to 204.5 mm) in November, the highest in the last five years,” the IMD data stated, according to news agency PTI.
The number of heavy rainfall events in November this year was more than the overall in the last four years – 247 in 2020; 116 in 2019; 135 in 2018 and 139 in 2017.
