IMD issues Yellow alert for several Maharashtra districts for today
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a Yellow alert for Friday in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Dhule, Jalgaon…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a Yellow alert for Friday in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Dhule, Jalgaon…
The India Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for heavy rainfall in the nine Himachal Pradesh districts including Shimla, Solan and Mandi.
Heavy rainfall resulted in waterlogging and traffic snarls in the city. The minimum temperature was recorded at 27.1 degrees Celsius.
As recent forecasts will tell you, there has been a lot of improvement in the accuracy of weather forecasts provided by the IMD. There has been an increase in the number, class and type of observatories. Communication speed has been on a rise, too.
Scientists expressed concern that if this phenomenon continues for a few more days, many valuable herbs will reach the verge of extinction.
The minimum temperature on Saturday was recorded at 27.3 degrees Celsius, while the maximum was likely to hover around 36.7 degrees Celsius.
There will be "isolated heavy falls very likely over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on July 22 and 23. This is likely to increase to isolated heavy to very heavy falls on July 25 and 26 over these areas", the IMD said in a release.
As per the IMD, the heaviest rainfall was seen in Palam, which received 95.2 mm of rain between 8.30 p.m. on Sunday and 8.30 a.m. on Monday.
The India Meteorological Department's (IMD) forecast came on Saturday following fairly widespread rainfall over Delhi, the National Capital Region (NCR), Punjab, and Haryana due to a Western disturbance on Friday.
Delhi's air quality index (AQI) on Thursday morning was moderate with a reading of 165.
