It also predicted light scattered to fairly widespread rainfall or thunderstorms with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall activity over Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur for the next three days.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an Orange alert in several parts of the country including Vidarbha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam, Meghalaya, Andaman and Nicobar Island, West Bengal, Sikkim and Bihar. It also predicted light scattered to fairly widespread rainfall or thunderstorms with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall activity over Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur for the next three days.
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Highest rainfall activity in Past 24 hours
In the last 24 hours, the highest rainfall activity has been registered in Sabour in Bihar with 19 cm of rain followed by Ashta in Madhya Pradesh (15 cm), Deoghar in Jharkhand (14 cm), Gangapur in Marathwada (14 cm), and Mawkyrwat in Meghalaya (13 cm).
A look at weather conditions across several states:
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Delhi
The Regional Met Office has predicted a partly cloudy sky with a possibility of very light rain or thundershowers. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 36 and 27 degrees Celsius respectively. On Friday, the maximum temperature was recorded at 37.9 degrees Celsius at Pitampura.
West Bengal, Sikkim
The Regional Meteorological Centre Kolkata has forecasted rain at all the districts of northern part and at most places of the Sikkim. It has issued warning of Heavy to Very Heavy rain (07-20 cm) over one or two places over Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur districts. The maximum and minimum temperatures are most likely around 30 and 26 degrees Celsius respectively.
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Maharashtra and Goa
The IMD Centre in Mumbai has predicted light to moderate rain over most places in the districts of Konkan-Goa and at a few places in the districts of South Madhya Maharashtra. It also predicted widespread rainfall in North Konkan and South Konkan-Goa region, Fairly widespread rainfall in north Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Gujarat region and Scattered rainfall in South Madhya Maharashtra and Saurashtra-Kutch region.
