Heavy Rain In Kerala: Govt Declares Holiday For Schools, Colleges

Schools in six districts of Kerala have been declared closed today due to heavy rainfall. The announcement was made by educational authorities in response to the bad weather conditions affecting the state.

The government has declared holiday for schools in these districts: Kottayam, Alappuzha, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Ernakulam, and Wayanad. Also all the professional exams which are scheduled for the day has been cancelled.

According to a report from news agency ANI, the Regional Meteorological Centre in Thiruvananthapuram has issued an orange alert for Wayanad and Kannur districts. At the same time, a yellow alert has been issued for Kasaragode, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, Thrissur, Idukki, and Ernakulam districts.

Earlier on Wednesday, an orange alert was issued for eight districts, including Wayanad, Kannur, Kasaragode, Kozhikode, Idukki, Ernakulam, Pathanamthitta, and Thiruvananthapuram. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted heavy to very heavy rainfall expected along the West Peninsular Coast over the next 3-4 days, and across northeast India from June 27 to June 30. There is also an anticipated increase in rainfall activity over Northwest India

"The Northern Limit of Monsoon continues to pass through Mundra, Mehsana, Udaipur, Shivpuri, Siddhi, Lalitpur, Chaibasa, Haldia, Pakur, Sahibganj, and Raxaul.

Conditions are likely to become favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon into the remaining parts of North Arabian Sea, Gujarat State, Madhya Pradesh; some more parts of Rajasthan; remaining parts of Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Bihar; most parts of East Uttar Pradesh; some more parts of West Uttar Pradesh; some parts of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, northern parts of Punjab and northern parts of Haryana during next 3-4 days," IMD in a press release said.