The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rain in numerous parts of the nation on Friday, citing the formation of a low-pressure region over the northwest Bay of Bengal and the bordering Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal coasts.
Heavy to very severe rainfall is expected in a few places, with extremely heavy rains in isolated areas across Chhattisgarh and Odisha, according to the weather bureau.
Under the influence of low pressure over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal coasts, most of east India and neighboring central India is likely to see widespread to widespread rainfall activity with isolated to scattered heavy to very heavy fall beginning Friday.
It is expected to grow more noticeable during the next 24 hours and proceed west-northeast over Odisha, according to the IMD. According to the weather bureau, conditions are favorable for the southwest monsoon to advance further into more parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, remaining parts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha, entire West Bengal and Jharkhand, parts of Bihar and east Uttar Pradesh, and remaining parts of north Bay of Bengal over the next 24 hours.
IMD has predicted “Heavy to Very Heavy Rainfall at a few locations over Konkan & Goa, as well as isolated locations over East Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, and Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam and Heavy Rainfall at isolated locations over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Assam & Meghalaya, Gujarat Region, Madhya Maharashtra (ghat areas), Telangana and coastal Karnataka.”
The IMD has also predicted heatwave conditions at isolated places over west Rajasthan. Strong winds with gusts up to 60 kmph are expected over the southwest and adjacent west-central the Arabian Sea, as well as the south, central, and north Bay of Bengal, as well as along and off the north Andhra Pradesh-Odisha-West Bengal coastline, according to the IMD advisory.
“Over the Gulf of Mannar, speeds reached 45-55 kmph, while over the North Arabian Sea, speeds reached 40-50 kmph.
Fishermen are urged not to enter into the Lakshadweep area, as well as along and off the Gujarat-Maharashtra and Karnataka-Kerala beaches “It was also added. Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Telangana are likely to witness thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds (speed reaching 30-40kmph) at extreme places.
Lightning at isolated places over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit Baltistan, and Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Andaman, and the Nicobar Islands, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, coastal Karnataka and Kerala and Mahe.
