The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued orange alert for West Bengal for heavy to very heavy rain, thunderstorm, lightning, gusty winds 40 to 50kmph at isolated places. At least 10 people were killed, nine of them from electrocution, as torrential battered Kolkata and adjoining districts. Air, rail and road transport were disrupted, educational institutions shut, and the state government advanced Puja holidays.
The deluge – 251.4 mm in less than 24 hours – was the highest since 1986 and sixth-highest single-day rainfall in the last 137 years, only behind the record 369.6 mm in 1978, 253 mm in 1888, and 259.5, 98 years later.
In south Kolkata’s Garia and Jodhpur Park, residents were surprised to find knee-to-waist-deep water in living rooms, ground floors and shops. Across the city, arterial roads such as EM Bypass, AJC Bose Road and Central Avenue turned into rivers, while traffic crawled for hours at key intersections like Park Circus, Gariahat, Behala and College Street.
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