IMD WARNS OF HEAVY RAINS IN ASSAM, ARUNACHAL PRADESH ON JULY 4-5, WIDESPREAD RAINFALL ALSO LIKELY OVER NORTHWEST INDIA

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall Northwest and East India over the next four to five days. The weather department has warned of extremely heavy rainfall in flood-ravaged Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on July 4 and 5 while heavy rainfall has also been predicted in south Gujarat today.

The IMD forecast has said that cyclonic circulations lying over Rajasthan, Bangladesh and Jharkhand are expected to bring heavy rains in Gangetic West Bengal on July 4, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Jharkhand on July 4-5, Odisha on July 4, 6 and 8, Bihar during July 6-8, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on July 7 and 8 and Assam and Meghalaya on July 8.

Isolated very heavy rainfall is also likely over Jammu on July 5, Himachal Pradesh on July 4-5, Uttarakhand during July 4-7, Punjab on July 5, Uttar Pradesh on July 5 and 6, East Rajasthan on July 4 and West Madhya Pradesh on July 4. A similar forecast has been issued for Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi during July 4-6.

The IMD has also said, “A cyclonic circulation lies over south Gujarat in middle tropospheric levels. The off-shore trough at mean sea level runs along south Gujarat- Karnataka coasts.” This will lead to isolated very heavy rainfall very over Konkan and Goa during July 4-6, Madhya Maharashtra during July 4–8, Saurashtra and Kutch on July 4, Coastal Karnataka during July 4–7 and South Interior Karnataka on July 4, 6 and 7.

Meanwhile, the weather department also said that no significant change is expected in maximum temperatures is likely over the next seven days across the country.

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