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Heavy rainfall over North-eastern states is expected during next 4-5 days, Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) said on Friday.

โ€œScattered to fairly widespread rainfall activity observed over north eastern states with isolated heavy falls over Nagaland and Monsoon Activity was normal over north eastern states during last 24 hours,โ€ says RMC of IMD said in a press release on Friday.

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โ€œHeavy rainfall is very likely at isolated places on 07th with a significant increase thereafter and heavy to very heavy rainfall during next 4-5 days with isolated extremely heavy falls on September 10 and 11 over Arunachal Pradesh.โ€

Similarly heavy rainfall is very likely at isolated places over Assam & Meghalaya on Friday and Saturday with a significant increase thereafter and heavy to very heavy rainfall during next 3-4 days with isolated extremely heavy falls on September 10 and 11, it said.

Heavy rainfall is very likely at isolated places over Nagaland on Friday with a significant increase thereafter and heavy to very heavy rainfall during September 8-10 & decrease thereafter.

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It also added that heavy rain falls is expected over Manipur during Saturday to Monday and over Mizoram & Tripura on Sunday.

The current Meteorological analysis and numerical model guidance suggests a significant increase in the spatial coverage as well as the intensity of the rainfall activity from day-2 (September 8) onward with widespread rainfall activity during next 4-5 days, the release added.

Sobhapati Samom is Northeast Now Correspondent in Imphal. He can be reached at: [email protected]

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