UP rainfall alert: Schools in Noida, Lucknow, Kanpur, Aligarh, Meerut and Hapur to remain shut today

Due to heavy rainfall predictions schools in several districts of Uttar Pradesh, including the capital Lucknow, will remain shut today. The districts where schools will remain closed are Noida, Lucknow, Kanpur, Aligarh, Meerut and Hapur.

Schools have been directed to inform all parents and students that the schools will remain shut.  Several districts in Uttar Pradesh have witnessed heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours. The weather department has predicted that the rains would continue tomorrow.

Cities including Lucknow, Noida, Gaziabad, Kanpur and Agra shut schools for all children up to class 12 owing to a warning of heavy rainfall issued by the weather department for Oct 10. The state has already been witnessing incessant rainfalls in the past few days. 

According to IMD, post-monsoon rain in the area is due to the interactions of a western disturbance which lies as a trough in mid and upper air with a deep trough of easterly wind at a lower level. Several districts of Uttar Pradesh saw waterlogging due to the heavy rainfall with farmers also facing damage to crops. Many houses and shops were inundated with water causing trouble for the residents.

The ceaseless spell of rain has also brought down the difference between minimum temperature (20.8 degrees Celsius) on Friday and maximum temperature (23.4 degrees Celsius) on Saturday to 2.6 degrees Celsius -- the lowest since 1969. Earlier, the lowest such margin was recorded on October 19, 1998, at 3.1 degree Celsius, the IMD added.

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