Maharashtra Monsoon Hits Worst, IMD Aware With Districts To Downpour

Maharashtra to relief as IMD predicts a decrease in rainfall. 

The IMD on late Saturday predicted that rainfall is expected to decrease over the west coast soon. The development comes amid torrential downpours, widespread floods, and landslides raging havoc in the state, with hundreds dead so far and scores of people still missing.

The IMD, however, predicted rainfall activity to increase from Sunday in several other states in the north Indian plains, including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and parts of Uttar Pradesh.

An "active wet spell" might frequent Gujarat till Tuesday, news agency PTI reported citing met department officials, with the likelihood of light to moderate rainfall at several places and isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall.

The met department has also issued an orange alert for 24 Madhya Pradesh districts, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall and thunderstorms with lightning in isolated places over Jabalpur, Rewa, Satna, Anuppur, Umarai, Dindori, Katni, Narsinghpur, Mandla, Sagar, Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Vidisha and Sehore, Rajgarh, Betul, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Dhar, Dewas, Agar Malwa, Ashok Nagar, and Shivpuri.

 


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