Overview

• The Regional Met Centre in Jaipur issued a short-term red alert for Sawai Madhopur this morning and a four-day yellow advisory for thunderstorms, lightning and squall.
• Reports and video show 2.5 to 3 feet of water over tracks at Sawai Madhopur railway station, disrupting train movement and affecting passengers.
• Local administrations closed schools in Sawai Madhopur and Baran as flooding swamped streets, homes and shops and blocked roads and bridges in parts of Bundi and other areas.
• The weather office forecast rain across the Kota, Udaipur, Bharatpur, Ajmer and Jaipur divisions through August 26, with Jodhpur and Bikaner likely to see spells on August 23–24 and again on August 26.
• The IMD attributes the ongoing downpours to back-to-back low-pressure systems moving from the Bay of Bengal, noting an all-India weekly rainfall 22% above the long-period average.