The Met division has issued ‘Orange' alert for Raigad on Sunday.
Mumbai witnessed heavy downpour on Saturday, with a mean rainfall from 8 am to 10 pm recorded 6.80 mm for Mumbai Metropolis, 11.53 mm within the Japanese suburb and seven.42 mm within the Western suburb, as per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC).
On Saturday, a purple alert was in place for Palghar district, and an orange alert was in place for Mumbai, Thane, and Raigad.
In the meantime, on Saturday night time, the Jogitikariya bridge on the Dindori to Jabalpur route in Madhya Pradesh was submerged in water as a result of heavy rainfall, inflicting the Narmada River to overflow. The State Catastrophe Response Pressure crew was current on the spot.
Satish Dwivedi, Sub-divisional Police Officer, Dindori, advised that the river is flowing over the Jogitikariya bridge, and consequently, visitors from each side has been diverted.”The Narmada River is in spate. The river is flowing over the Jogitikariya bridge. Site visitors from each side has been diverted… Ample safety preparations have been made right here. Police, Residence Guard, and SDRF groups are deployed,” Dwivedi advised ANI.On Saturday, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) issued a purple alert for Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Goa, warning of extraordinarily heavy rainfall in these areas.
“The Melancholy over east Madhya Pradesh and north Chhattisgarh moved almost westwards with a velocity of 12 kmph throughout previous 6 hours and lay centred at 2330 hrs IST of as we speak, the twenty sixth July over the identical area, close to Lat. 23.3°N and Lengthy. 81.0°E, about 30 km south-southeast of Umaria (Madhya Pradesh), 110 km east of Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) and 170 km east-southeast of Damoh (Madhya Pradesh). It is vitally more likely to proceed to maneuver westwards throughout Madhya Pradesh and weaken regularly right into a well-marked low-pressure space by tomorrow, the twenty seventh July, 2025,” the IMD mentioned in a put up on X.
Crimson alert has been issued for the districts of North Seoni, Mandla/Kanha, South Khandwa, South Khargone in Madhya Pradesh and Nanded, Parbhani, Hingoli in inside Maharashtra, indicating the probability of heavy rainfall accompanied by a excessive likelihood of cloud-to-ground lightning exercise.
Components of east Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, south Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra, south Kerala, south Chhattisgarh, southeast Uttar Pradesh (Kanpur), south Punjab, south Haryana, Gangetic West Bengal, are below an orange alert for reasonable rainfall and potential cloud-to-ground lightning.
