Parts of West, Central India likely to receive light to moderate rainfall next week

According to an IMD release, fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall is very likely over Konkan and Goa, scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall is very likely over Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and isolated to scattered light or moderate rainfall is very likely over Vidarbha, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, and Gujarat state during the week.

The IMD said on Saturday that isolated extremely heavy rainfall is very likely over Chhattisgarh and East Madhya Pradesh on September 15 to 17 and West Madhya Pradesh on September 17 and 18.

The India Meteorological Department said on Saturday that a deep depression has formed over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh.

The IMD said the depression is likely to cause isolated very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall over Jharkhand on September 15, Chhattisgarh on September 15, and East Madhya Pradesh on September 16.

Additionally, the IMD has also forecast fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rainfall very likely over East India, and scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall is very likely over Northeast India during the week.

According to the IMD release, isolated extremely heavy rainfall is very likely over Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal on September 15, isolated very heavy rainfall is very likely over Bihar and Odisha on September 15, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura during September 15 and 16 and Assam and Meghalaya during September 18 to 20.

As per the IMD during the past 24 hours, a few places over Haryana received heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy falls. Also, heavy to very heavy rainfall was recorded at a few places over Gangetic West Bengal, and isolated places over Uttarakhand, heavy rainfall at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, and Jharkhand. (ANI)