Overview
- Mumbai recorded intermittent light to moderate rain with cooler temperatures and improved air quality in the good to moderate range, and the IMD signaled no citywide heavy-rain warning.
- The depression over the east-central Arabian Sea is drifting north toward the Gujarat coast, with coastal advisories in place for high waves of roughly 2.6–3.1 metres and squally winds up to 55 km/h along Konkan and Goa.
- Yellow nowcasts warned of short-duration showers across Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and several Maharashtra districts, while Pune saw brief rain and is forecast to trend drier into the weekend.
- Remnants of Cyclone Montha over central Chhattisgarh are driving very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in North Bengal, with red alerts for Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar and authorities warning of landslides, flash floods and rising river levels.
- IMD forecasts continued thunderstorms and heavy rain across parts of Madhya Pradesh and East and Northeast India, and it expects heavy to very heavy rain in Gujarat’s Saurashtra and Kutch as the Arabian Sea system approaches.