The coastal area, together with Mumbai and Madhya Maharashtra, is more likely to obtain heavy to very heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours, an IMD official mentioned on Sunday.
The synoptic conditions resembling a low-pressure space fashioned in the Bay of Bengal, cyclonic circulation over the Kutch area of Gujarat, and an energetic trough unfold over Maharashtra to coastal Karnataka would carry heavy to very heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours over Konkan together with Mumbai and Madhya Maharashtra, the official mentioned.
After an extended hole, the southwest monsoon has been speedily progressing and overlaying increasingly areas, the official added.
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Mumbai and its suburbs obtained heavy rains in the final 24 hours, ensuing in water-logging at numerous locations and affecting vehicular motion on some roads.
In a uncommon occasion, the monsoon on Sunday lined each Delhi and Mumbai collectively.
The Colaba observatory here, consultant of the island metropolis, recorded 86 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Sunday whereas the Santacruz climate station, consultant of suburbs, registered 176.1 mm of rainfall in the identical interval, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned.
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IMD has additionally predicted heavy to extraordinarily heavy rainfall in another Indian states together with Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh until June 28.
A ‘purple alert’ has been issued for 3 districts of Madhya Pradesh -Chhindwara, Seoni, and Balaghat, whereas ‘yellow’ and ‘orange’ alerts have been issued for a number of districts of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala, Meghalaya, and Assam.
There are excessive probabilities of heavy to very heavy rainfall, with extraordinarily heavy falls over Odisha on June 25 and 26. Heavy to very heavy rainfall can be probably over Assam and Meghalaya on June 28 and 29; over Arunachal Pradesh on June 29. Heavy rainfall can be anticipated over East India through the next 2 days and over Northeast India through the next 5 days.
“Isolated extremely heavy rainfall is very likely over east Madhya Pradesh on June 26 and 27 while West Madhya Pradesh on June 27,” the climate division mentioned.
