Weather Update: Over the previous three days, multiple parts of India have been receiving heavy rains. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasts that during the next three to four days, there will be widespread to fairly widespread rainfall throughout east India as well as the Western Himalayan Region. Meanwhile, Peninsular India is predicted to see little rainfall activity during the next seven days.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall has fallen in isolated areas of East Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, East Madhya Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Jharkhand, and Odisha over the last 24 hours.
Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, West Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, and Andhra Pradesh's coastal regions all had isolated instances of heavy rainfall.
Northwest India Weather Forecast
"Fairly widespread to widespread light/moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm & lightning very likely over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand & East Rajasthan; scattered to fairly widespread rainfall over Jammu-Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, West Rajasthan during the week," the IMD said.
Isolated very heavy rainfall is also expected over east Rajasthan on Thursday, over Himachal Pradesh on August 10 and over Uttarakhand on August 10 and 14.
"Isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, East Rajasthan during 08th & 14th; Haryana-Chandigarh on 08th & 09th; Uttar Pradesh during 08th – 12th; West Rajasthan during 09th – 14th; Punjab on 10th; Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad on 10th & 11th August," the weather agency added.
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"Fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm & lightning very likely over Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Konkan & Goa, Gujarat Region during the week; scattered to fairly widespread rainfall over Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Saurashtra & Kutch during the week," the MeT Department said.
Heavy rainfall is expected at isolated places over Chhattisgarh on Thursday, over West Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa on August 8 and 9 and over east Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra till August 10.
Weather In Northeast And East India
Over east and northeast India during the week, there is a good chance of thunderstorms and very widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall. Lightning is also quite possible.
Very heavy rainfall is expected in isolated areas of Arunachal Pradesh till August 9, in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, and Sikkim on Thursday, and in Bihar on August 10.
"Isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim during 08th-10th; Jharkhand during 08th–12th; Assam & Meghalaya during 08th–13th; Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura during 08th-14th; Gangetic West Bengal on 08th, 10th & 13th; Odisha on 08th, 09th & 13th August," the MeT Department said.
South India Weather
"Scattered to fairly widespreadlight to moderate rainfall over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal, Kerala & Mahe, Lakshadweep, Karnataka and isolated to scattered rainfall over Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam, Telangana and Rayalaseema during the week," the weather agency said.
Heavy rainfall is very likely at isolated places over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal on August 8, 11 and 12 and over Kerala and Mahe between August 10 and 13.