India Weather Latest Updates: A worker pulls his tricycle cart during a sudden shower of monsoon rain, in New Delhi on Friday. (PTI)
India Weather Live Today: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted heavy rainfall spell over extreme south Peninsular and northeast India for the next five days and over Bihar, Jharkhand and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the next three days.
Subdued rainfall activity was predicted over plains of northwest India and over Central India during the next 5 days. Isolated very heavy rainfall is also likely to occur over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya today. Fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls and thunderstorm/lightning very likely over Chhattisgarh, coastal Karnataka, north interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Mahe till September 6.
Major regions across the country will receive normal to above normal rainfall in September, the IMD said on Thursday. According to the forecast, the southwest monsoon is unlikely to start withdrawing anytime soon. Quantitatively, the all-India rainfall for September is forecast to be 109 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA), which is 168.9mm (1971-2020). Jammu, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, southwest Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, north Andhra Pradesh, coastal Karnataka, north Kerala, south coastal Tamil Nadu, Tripura and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will receive normal to above normal rainfall this month, IMD said.
