Manipur continues to witness climate change

Our Correspondent Imphal, June 18 (EMN): Manipur continued to witness climate change since the past couple of days even after the Southwest Monsoon, which advanced on Sunday, covering most parts of the Northeast region of the country, was found to be weak over Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram-Tripura. On Tuesday afternoon, Senapati district experienced intense rainfall for about half an hour whereas other districts experienced warm temperature. After the intense rain, Senapati town, 60 km north of Imphal is yet to regain its normal power supply till the report goes to press. Reports from the hill town also claimed that the district faces deficit rainfall this time. “If the existing trend goes on and the rice plantation could not be completed within June, we will be facing less production of rice as in the previous year,” said a resident in Senapati who frequently shares information on agriculture practices with the farmers. On the other hand, Imphal east and Imphal west districts experienced maximum temperature of 35.23 and 35.09 degree Celsius respectively on Tuesday. Among the districts, Noney experienced warmest temperature with 37.46 degree Celsius while Ukhrul records a maximum temperature of 25.72 degree Celsius on Tuesday. Otherwise Churachandpur district also rainfall of about 9.6 mm this morning. According to India Meteorological department, Southwest Monsoon is found to be weak over Manipur and Nagaland, otherwise south west monsoon covering most parts of the north-eastern region of the country, and entered the remaining parts of the northeast Bay of Bengal, some more parts of north-west Bay of Bengal and north Bengal and Sikkim as well. “The rainfall activity was widespread over Arunachal Pradesh and Assam and Meghalaya, however it was fairly-widespread over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura sub-division in the past 24 hours,” said IMD in a press release issued on Sunday.