Overall Green alert Flood for India
in India

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Flood India can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1100578
Death: 57
Displaced: 69724
Countries: India
From - To 14 Aug - 29 Aug

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Gujarat, India, Late August 2020Severe weather affected parts of Gujarat from around 20 August, with some fatalities reported as a result of heavy rain or lightning strike. Particularly severe flooding affected the state from late August after heavy rain from around 29 August, affecting the the districts of Surat, Savarkantha, Rajkot, Patan, Narmada, Morbi, Jamnagar, Gir-Somnath, Devbhumi Dwarka, Botad, Bhavnagar, Bharuch and Amreli. According to India's Disaster Management Division (DMD) reported around 12,000 people evacuated from 29 August to 01 September. According to media reports, many of those evacuated were residents living close to the Narmada river in Bharuch district.Sat 29 Aug 2020FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Articles: 135 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

9am UK weather forecast – Sunny 20C weekend on the cards as clouds and ... Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:42:00 +0200.

A SUNNY weekend with 20C weather has been forecast as clouds and drizzle disappear. That's good news after flood alerts were yesterday put out for England, during the "wettest September ever". The balmy weather will follow highs of 22C suns
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10pm UK weather forecast – Flood alerts in force for England as odds s ... Wed, 02 Sep 2020 23:23:00 +0200.

FLOOD alerts are in force for England, the Met Office has reported. A flood alert has been issued for Rivers Dutton, Crake and Mill Beck, with river levels set to rise as a result of heavy rainfall. Meanwhile, bookies are slashing the odds
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Deaths due to forces of nature increased by 18.2% in 2019, says NCRB r ... Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:44:00 +0200.

Deaths due to forces of nature like floods, sun/heat stroke, lightning strikes and avalanches increased by 18.2 % from 2018 to 2019, according to the recently published report on Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI) by the Nationa
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India: Ministry of Home Affairs Disaster Management Division (National ... Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:31:00 +0200.

1 . Brief about flood situation/ damage report during last 24 hours is as under. State wise details is at Annexure I. 2 . Total 155 Teams of NDRF have been deployed across the country. State wise deployment is at - Annexure-II. 3 . Forecast
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),