The India Meteorological Department issued a clean warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall in north Bengal over the weekend elevating fears of landslides and rising water stage in rivers, even as authorities in Sikkim advised tourists not to go to some of the popular destinations in the northern components of the Himalayan state.
“All tourists who had been stranded in locations like Lachen and Lachung have been added back to safer places like Gangtok. However, the street conditions in the top reaches of the kingdom are very bad as primary landslides have occurred at locations in Dzongo, Chungthang, Lachen, Lachung and Dikchu,” stated AB Karki, district collector of Sikkim’s Mangan district
The amount of rainfall recorded at Gangtok between June 1 and June sixteen is the highest this yr compared to 2020 and 2021. This year the capital of Sikkim obtained 632.5 mm rain all through the length compared to 232.1mm and 486.6 mm in 2020 and 2021 at some stage in the identical period.
“Heavy to very heavy rain might also hit some of the districts in sub Himalayan areas of West Bengal inclusive of Darjeeling and Kalimpong. The IMD, in its bulletin, has stated that there should be landslides in the hills and water ranges in rivers like Teesta, Jaldhaka, Sankosh and Torsa can also rise further,” said a senior official of the IMD’s regional office in Kolkata.
“Conditions are favourable and the monsoon is probably to cowl the ultimate components of West Bengal in the subsequent two to three days,” stated GK Das, a scientist with the IMD’s regional workplace in Kolkata.
