The Meteorological Department has forecasted heavy rounds of fresh rains for several areas of Rajasthan ranging from this weekend due to a new pressure system formed along the coast of the Bay of Bengal and Bangladesh.
Rain alert: Heavy to very likely rainfall is likely to occur at one or two places in the next 24 hours. There is possibility of heavy to very heavy rainfall in all the districts. Red warning issued for districts like Sambalpur, Kalahandi, said HR Biswas, Director, IMD Bhubaneswar.
Due low pressure development in the Bay of Bengal, South Gujarat and Saurashtra can receive very heavy rains and so a red alert warning has been issued.
Of the seven victims, five were reported from Seoul and the remaining two in Gyeonggi. While four people went missing in the capital, two were reported in the province.
Rain alert: Fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls and thunderstorm/lightning very likely over Himachal Pradesh, West Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand during August 5 and 7 and over Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana on August 5.
Karnataka weather update: Bengaluru, the capital of the state has also been issued a yellow alert for two more days.
Tamil Nadu weather update: The IMD said that a cyclonic circulation over Tamil Nadu is the reason for the widespread rain in the state.
Delhi weather update: According to the IMD, a generally cloudy sky with light to moderate rainfall is expected during the day.
The IMD has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy showers during the next five days in south Gujarat, and heavy downpour in central parts of the state and Saurashtra.
A video of a man lying on the water-logged streets of Mumbai has been going viral on social media. While many laughed at it others lamented the situation of drainage in the city during Monsoon.
The weather office, in a new notification, warned that Raigad and Ratnagiri will face heavy to very heavy rains on Friday. In view of this, the IMD issued an orange alert for these districts.
The mercury settled at 27.6 degrees Celsius in the morning. This comes a day after Delhi had struggled under sultry weather on Wednesday, with the weather office forecasting light overnight rains.
The IMD has predicted generally cloudy skies for the day with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers.
Due to fresh Western Disturbance in mid troposphere levels with its axis at 5.8 km above mean sea level, light to moderate thunderstorms or rainfall is expected in Himachal Pradesh.
The IMD forecast predicts more rain likely for the Delhi-NCR region for the rest of the day.
Earlier in the morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had issued a yellow alert, warning of a dust storm, thunderstorm or hail storm with winds gusting up to 50 kilometres per hour in the national capital.
The maximum temperature at most places in Punjab and Haryana, including Chandigarh, had been hovering above normal limits during the past several days.
An IMD official told that in the past 120 yrs, such a dry March month was only seen 12 times. The last time it was in 2018, when the city received no rain during the month of March in Delhi.
Meanwhile, India Meteorological Department stated that a depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal lay centered at 8:30 am of Friday near 8.9 degrees of North/ 82.9 degrees of East about 390Km southeast of Nagappattinam (Tamil Nadu) is likely to intensify further into a deep depression during next twelve hours.
The formation of a Low Pressure Area over Southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea around Feb 28 will lead to enhanced rainfall activity over Andaman-Nicobar Islands on Sunday and Monday over Tamil Nadu-Puducherry-Karaikal during Mar 2-4.
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