In addition to the lives lost, the number of people forced from their homes stands in the hundreds of thousands after torrential monsoon rain over the past week.
Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 97 people in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat, according to India Today.
Flooding downpours have also struck northern India with at least 34 deaths reported in the state of Uttarakhand.
In Kerala at least 76 deaths have been reported in the past week, and more than 290,000 people have been affected by the flooding, according to NDTV.
“Several houses are still covered under 10-12 feet [3 to 3.6 meters] of deep mud. This is hampering rescue work,” the state’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told Reuters.
Flooding forced officials to close the Cochin International Airport in Kerala on Friday morning. After water levels receded, flight operations resumed at midday Sunday.The airport recorded nearly 410 mm (16 inches) of rain in five days, ending on Sunday morning. That included the 100 mm (4 inches) that poured down from Saturday to Sunday morning.
Similar rainfall totals from Saturday to Sunday morning were recorded in other coastal communities of Kerala and Karnataka.
However, there can still be showers, thunderstorms and localized downpours that disrupt cleanup operations and slow flood waters from receding from northern Kerala to western Maharashtra.
Meanwhile, a new monsoon low is taking shape over the northern Bay of Bengal and will threaten more lives and property with flooding across a large swath of India this week.
The storm is expected to spread heavy rain from Odisha and northeast Andhra Pradesh to Madhya Pradesh, eastern Rajasthan and southern Uttar Pradesh as the week progresses.
As the storm tracks westward, downpours can ramp back up across India’s western coast during the second half of the week. However, the heaviest rain may target the corridor from Panaji to Mumbai rather than near Kochi.
Heavy monsoon rainfall has also been deadly in Myanmar where more than 50 people have lost their lives in the past week, according to CNN. Monsoon rainfall will continue across Myanmar this week; however, downpours are not expected to be as widespread as last week.
Southern Pakistan has also endured deadly weather with at least 17 deaths reported thus far, according to The National. Drier weather is forecast across southern Pakistan this week bringing relief from the recent downpours.
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