Met Office sounds red alert in five districts
South West Monsoon System likely to be Vigorous in next five days as widespread rainfall is predicted in the state moreover red alert of very heavy to extremely heavy rain is made by Indian Meterlogical Department in five districts of the state in next 48hrs .
A warning of flash flood with risk outlook was made by IMD which would effective till 2330 hrs on Jul 28.
A red alert of very heavy to extermly heavy rain along with lightening and thunder strom the have been issued which likely to causemoderate risk over few watersheds and neighborhood of Chamba, Kangra, Mandi, Kullu and Shimla (Upper Part), districts in Himachal Pradesh..
Alert of surface runoff or inundation may occur at some fully saturated soils & low-lying areas over alerted contour also depicted in the map due to expected persistent rainfall occurrence in next 36 hours, Met Office warned.
Besides this most of places in the mid and foothills likely t have heavy to very heavy rain , met office said issuing orange alert for the state.
State have moderate to heavy rain as Bharariin Hamirpur 76 mm, Sarkaghat in mandi 60 mm, Gohar-45 mm, Dharamshala in Kangra -44 mm, Bijahi in Mandi 36 mm, Mehre in Kangra 34 mm, Pandoh in Mandi-33 mm, Hamirpur-32 mm, Sujanpur Tira-31 mm, Baijnath & Palampur-30 mm each, Gaggal & Nahan in Sirmaur -29 mm each, Naina Devi in Bilaspur 26 mm, Banjar in Kullu -24 mm, Mandi & Dehra Gopipur in Kangra -23 mmeach, Bhuntar in Kullu 22 mm, Baijnath in Kangra & Kasauli in Solan 20 mm each.
A report of SDM Padhar said that Jatingiri road is blocked between Gatasni and jatingiri about 1130hrs . Machinery is deployed road would be cleared by 1500hrs today . About 15 vehicles are stranded there.
Thick fog and low visibility also hampering the vehicular traffic in the state moreover number roads including national highways are disrupted in the state.