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Live weather warnings for Idukki district from SACHET, India's national alert feed — the short-notice rain and wind warnings IMD issues — plus the wind at Munnar right now.
SACHET carries no active warnings for Idukki district, as of Mon, 12 October at 5:19 pm.
SACHET carries short-fuse warnings — nowcasts for the next few hours and 24-hour heavy-rain warnings — not IMD’s five-day colour outlook. For planning ahead, the daily district colour alerts in the official channels below are the source.
The wind at Munnar town
The wind forecast is unavailable right now — SACHET’s own forecast for the area is at mausam.imd.gov.in.
Where the official word comes from
The warnings above come from IMD and the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority through the national SACHET feed. The daily district colour alerts, closure orders and relief instructions come from KSDMA and the Idukki district administration — check them when rain sets in, and call the control room if you need help.
Where to check, before and during
KSDMA daily district alertsThe daily yellow, orange and red alert map for every Kerala district — the planning source during the monsoon.
Idukki district administrationThe Collector's orders, including night-travel bans and tourism closures. District Control Room: 1077. District Emergency Operations Centre: 9383463036 or 04862-233111.
Get an email when a warning is issued
Official warnings, forwarded the moment the national service issues one for the area — headline and all, in its own words. Nothing in between. No account, one-click unsubscribe.
Worth knowing
What the colour alerts mean
IMD grades 24-hour rainfall: a yellow alert means heavy rain of 64.5–115.5 mm, orange means very heavy rain of 115.6–204.4 mm, and red means extremely heavy rain above 204.5 mm — the definitions KSDMA publishes with its daily alerts. They matter most during the monsoon, June to September: orange and red days are when landslides and flooding become likely in the high ranges.
What an orange or red day actually closes in Idukki
The colour is a rainfall forecast, but in this district it is also a switch. When the alert goes up the Collector issues orders that follow much the same shape every year — in July 2024, in the June 2025 Gap Road spell, and again on 1 August 2026: night travel banned on the hill roads from 7 pm to 6 am; DTPC sites closed, the Munnar Botanical Garden among them; boating, kayaking, rafting and coracle rides stopped on the reservoirs, Mattupetty included; trekking and adventure tourism stopped; relief camps opened in landslide-prone wards; the RTO told to keep cranes and heavy machinery ready; and estate managements told to take precautions for workers.
The orders are tied to the alert rather than to a date, and they are lifted quietly when it is withdrawn — nobody publishes a notice saying the night ban is over. So the warning above is the closest thing to a live answer this page can give you; for the order itself, the district administration's page is the authority.
Pettimudi, 2020
On 6 August 2020, after days of extremely heavy rain, a debris flow at Pettimudi near Rajamala buried estate housing and killed 70 people. It is why Munnar watches rain warnings closely — for families in estate lines and low-lying valleys, a heavy-rain warning is the signal to move early, not a formality. The instruction to estate managements that arrives with every red alert is about exactly those lines.
Warning data: SACHET, the National Disaster Management Authority’s public CAP alert feed at sachet.ndma.gov.in (the feed declares its content public domain). The warnings themselves are issued by the India Meteorological Department and the state disaster management authority, and are shown as issued, unaltered; this page reads the alerts whose district geocode covers Idukki district. Wind forecast: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). This page is not an alert service — sign up to the official channels above.