Himachal Pradesh travel alert: Flash floods, cloudbursts hit Mandi; what travellers should know
Large-scale rescue operations are underway.
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mandi is under a red alert. Continued rainfall is predicted across Mandi, Shimla, Kullu, Kangra, and Sirmaur. As per local reports, Mandi has experienced 10 different cloudburst incidents which have claimed lives of at least 10 people. More than 30 individuals have gone missing under the sad circumstances.
In addition to these regions, Karsog, Dharampur, Gohar, and Jogindernagar have also come under the wrath of monsoon rains.
Rivers in the state including the Beas, Suketi, and Jayuni Khad are overflowing. One of the worst-affected regions was the Pandoh Dam, which was forced to release 157,000 cusecs of water.
Because of torrential rain, over 259 roads across Himachal Pradesh remain blocked, including 129 in Mandi alone. The authorities, with help of the National and State Disaster Response Forces (NDRF and SDRF), have evacuated more than 300 people from flooded regions.
by Taboola
by Taboola
Sponsored Links
Sponsored Links
Promoted Links
Promoted Links
You May Like
Giao dịch CFD với công nghệ và tốc độ tốt hơn
IC Markets
Đăng ký
Undo
Schools and colleges across Mandi, Hamirpur, and Kangra districts remain closed.
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has closely looked into the present situation. He has directed teams to prioritise rescue operations and accelerate aid distribution. He said, 'Our first priority is to ensure the safety of our citizens and restore essential services.' The minister has also requested people to avoid travel to high-risk zones, especially riverbanks and landslide-prone regions.
The IMD has predicted continued moderate to heavy rainfall in the region till July 8. Flash flood warnings remain in effect, and travelers are strongly advised to postpone non-essential journeys to and through affected districts.
The natural events are a reminder of the Himalayan region's vulnerability during the monsoon. As the state starts recovery efforts, the government faces the challenge of rebuilding amid continued weather-related issues.
Travel Advisory for travellers:
Travellers are advised to avoid non-essential travel to Mandi. Stay updated on weather alerts issued by the IMD and Himachal Pradesh Disaster Management Authority.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Time of India
an hour ago
- Time of India
NCDEX, IMD ink pact to launch India's first weather derivatives
The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Ltd ( NCDEX ) on Thursday said it has inked an agreement with the India Meteorological Department ( IMD ) that will lay critical groundwork for launching India's first weather derivatives . This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on June 26, lays the critical groundwork for the launch of India's first weather derivatives -- a long-anticipated market instrument designed to help farmers and allied sectors hedge against climate-related risks such as erratic rainfall, heatwaves, and unseasonal weather events, NCDEX said in a statement. With this partnership, NCDEX will develop a rainfall-based derivative product, among others, using historical and real-time datasets sourced from IMD. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track default , selected Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Treatment That Might Help You Against Knee Pain Knee pain | search ads Find Now Undo "While our endeavour is to launch it early so that stakeholders benefit. We will need time for developing a product considering southwest and eastern monsoon cycles and then test our hypothesis before we submit it for regulatory approval and it is difficult to give any concrete timeframe at this juncture," NCDEX Managing Director and CEO Arun Raste told PTI. The weather product to be developed under this collaboration will enable seasonal and location-specific derivative contracts and will advance expertise on weather-related risks across agriculture , transportation, and allied industries. Live Events "This partnership with IMD opens the door to a new era in commodity markets. Weather derivatives have long been a foundational need towards building a climate-resilient rural economy . With climate volatility increasingly affecting productivity and income of farmers, these instruments provide a market-based solution to weather risk," Raste said. The collaboration will support capacity-building, joint research, and training programmes for stakeholders, including FPOs, agri-traders, policy think tanks, and analysts. "IMD has always played a vital role in supporting agriculture and disaster resilience. Through this collaboration with NCDEX, we are now extending our scientific capabilities into the financial domain, allowing weather data to become a powerful instrument of economic stability and market innovation," IMD Director General of Meteorology Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
Mint
2 hours ago
- Mint
Himachal monsoon fury: 63 people killed, 40 missing amid cloudbursts, heavy rains; rescue operation underway
Torrential rains, flash floods, and landslides continue to wreak havoc across Himachal Pradesh, claiming at least 63 lives in the state since the start of monsoon on June 20, according to the latest official data. 40 others are reportedly missing. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's Media Advisor Naresh Chauhan said, '63 dead, 40 missing due to cloudbursts and other rain-related disasters in the state.' Chauhan also shared that 1 per cent of the state's population will soon receive Civil Defence training to tackle disasters. The state emergency operation centre (SEOC) said 261 roads, including 186 in Mandi district, are closed to traffic in the state, and 599 transformers and 797 water supply schemes have been disrupted due to heavy rains in the past few days. It added that the calamities damaged over 150 houses, 104 cattle sheds, 31 vehicles, 14 bridges, and several roads. On Thursday, officials said two more bodies were recovered, taking the death toll in the cloudburst and flash flood-related incidents in Mandi alone to 13. Search is underway for 29 others missing. While seven bodies were recovered from Gohar, five were from Thunag and one in Karsog subdivisions of Mandi district. Ten cloudbursts, three flash floods and a landslide were witnessed in different parts of Mandi district on Tuesday. 370 people, including 316 in Mandi, were rescued, and five relief camps have been set up. Two teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), alongside police and home guards, are actively engaged in search and rescue operations in the district. The weather agency has issued an orange alert, warning of heavy to very heavy rains in isolated areas across the state for five days from July 5 to 9. It has also warned of low to moderate flash flood risk in parts of six districts: Kangra, Mandi, Hamirpur, Shimla, Solan, and Sirmaur in the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, moderate to heavy rains have continued to lash parts of Himachal Pradesh. Pachhad in Sirmaur district received 133.3 mm of rain since Wednesday evening, followed by Mehra Barsar 92 mm, Jubbarhatti 59.4 mm, Jatton Barrage 566 mm, Una 55.2 mm, Baijnath 55 mm, Brahmani 42.2 mm, Baggi 37.5 mm, Murari Devi 34.6 mm, and Kangra 32.6 mm.
Mint
4 hours ago
- Mint
IMD to buy two Isro satellites to help improve weather forecast
New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) plans to ask the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) to build and launch two-fourth generation INSAT series satellites, helping improve the accuracy of its weather forecasting. These new satellites will replace IMD's two third-generation INSAT satellites by 2028-29 and at cost of ₹ 1,800 crore, said IMD director general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra in an interview. The upgraded satellites will give a better resolution of images and be equipped with state-of-the-art sensors for lightning forecasting, said Mohapatra. As many as 162 people were killed by lightning strikes in March and April. Mohapatra said, "In remote areas like oceans, hills, the Himalayas and polar regions, one cannot take observations by putting up the instruments. So, here the department goes for the remote sensing instruments like radars and satellites. 'Radars have limitations because a radar can cover only up to 500 kilometers at any particular place and you cannot put radar in the sea or hill peaks where you do not have any communication system or roads or water. So therefore, a satellite becomes very handy though its accuracy is less as compared to the ground truth and radars.' IMD has been using satellite technology extensively for weather monitoring and forecasting. This started with the use of photographs from Television Infrared Observation Satellites (TIROS-1) launched by the US in 1960. The two satellites currently used by IMD have a one-kilometer in visible range and 4 km infrared range. 'Then we have cascaded these two satellites so that every 15 minutes you get an image. The satellite is geostationary. Apart from this there are other sensors in the satellite which provide other information like say winds and humidity, water vapour you can say. So, these information's we get it from our own satellites,' IMD also gets data from European, Japanese and Korean satellites. According to him, there is a cooperation among the countries that is called coordinated group of meteorological satellites. However, there are still gaps in detecting small-scale weather events, such as cloudbursts, thunderstorms, and lightning due to a lack of high-resolution data, products, and satellite-based tools. "Considering this, Isro would be developing INSAT-4 series with better sensors and resolution," said Mohapatra. The assimilation of satellite data in the models has improved the accuracy in short to medium range forecasting by about 20% to 30%, according to IMD.
