Overview
- On Sunday, June 28, the India Meteorological Department put Assam and Meghalaya on a red alert and warned of isolated extremely heavy downpours with thunderstorms and squally winds.
- Sub‑Himalayan north Bengal districts including Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar have seen disruption to normal life as river levels rise and authorities warned of landslides and inundation.
- The Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata issued an orange alert for six south Bengal districts through midweek while the IMD named Nilgiris, Theni and Dindigul in Tamil Nadu for heavy rain and strong gusts through June 30.
- Delhi‑NCR was placed under short‑range orange alerts for thunderstorms and 40–60 km/h gusts after sudden convective events and the IMD also warned of severe heatwave conditions in parts of Uttar Pradesh for the next two days.
- Forecasters say a monsoon axis plus an upper‑air cyclonic circulation over the west‑central Bay of Bengal will spread moist winds into central and northern India in 2–3 days and authorities urge people to follow district alerts because the IMD’s four‑colour system signals escalating local hazards such as waterlogging, road closures and slope failures.