
New Delhi :- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on Wednesday that the monsoon is expected to be active in peninsular and central India over the next 4 to 5 days, bringing heavy rainfall to these regions. The IMD stated, “Isolated extremely heavy rainfall is very likely over South Interior Karnataka, Saurashtra, and Kutch on 17th and 18th July; Konkan and Goa, Coastal Karnataka on 18th July, followed by isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall during the subsequent 3 days.”
The forecast also indicates fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning over West and Central India, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka. Isolated to scattered light to moderate rainfall is expected over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Rayalaseema over the next five days.
Additionally, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely at isolated places over West Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Saurashtra and Kutch, Telangana, Coastal and South Interior Karnataka during the next five days. Isolated extremely heavy rainfall is anticipated over South Interior Karnataka, Saurashtra, and Kutch on 17th and 18th July, and over Konkan and Goa, and Coastal Karnataka on 18th July.
Isolated heavy rainfall is also very likely over East Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat Region, Kerala, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, and North Interior Karnataka during the next five days, and in Marathwada on the 17th and 20th of July.
In East and Northeast India, fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning is very likely over West Bengal and Odisha, with scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall over Bihar, Jharkhand, and Northeast India during the next five days.
In Northwest India, scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning is very likely over Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Rajasthan during the next five days.