Blackout after gale hits Dimapur

NATURE'S BEAUTY AND FURY: Holed up indoors for weeks, residents of Mokokchung were in for a spectable of thunderous proportions on Wednesday evening as mother nature decided to play around with some fireworks lighting up a sombre Doordarshan communications tower on top of "Dog Hill," as known to the locals, or officially, Forest Colony. (Photo Courtesy: Mokokchung Premier TV)

 

Eastern and North East States ’very likely' to experience heavy rainfall, thundersqualls and hailstorms at isolated places during next 5 days, forecasts IMD

 

Morung Express News
Dimapur | April 15

 

Dimapur went into major blackout mode following Wednesday afternoon's dust storm. Shutting down power supply is a standard precautionary measure during inclement weather but restoring supply after the winds subsided became troublesome as equipments took a bad hit.

 

According to Power department officials, as on 6:30pm, Wednesday, restoration works were on. While stating that faults were reported from several locations, one official informed that supply from only one sub-station (Burma Camp) could be resumed. "We can update as the work progresses," he said.

 

 

Other parts of the state also witnessed the storm and rainfalls, including Mokokchung district and Kohima. There were reports of heavy hailstorms Khonoma Village, in Kohima.

 

However, there were no reports of damages or injuries till the filing of the report.

 

The North East region and eastern states in India were hit by dust storm and heavy rainfall on Wednesday throwing ‘normal’ life out of gear.

 

The India Metrological Department’s (IMD) 'All India Weather Summary and Forecast Bulletin' issued at 5PM observed thunderstorm at isolated places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Bihar, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Uttarakhand on April 15.

 

The IMD attributed the same to the “convergence of strong moist winds from the Bay of Bengal.”

 

As a result, eastern states (especially West Bengal & Sikkim and east Bihar) and North East India are “very likely to experience fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim and Northeastern states during next 5 days,” the IMD forecasted.

 

Thundersqualls and hailstorms are also "very likely" over these regions during same period, it added.