IMD issues red alert for severe heatwave in parts of west Rajasthan till Fri
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--IMD issues red alert for severe heatwave in west Rajasthan till Friday
--IMD: See heavy to very heavy rainfall over parts of Kerala till Tue
--IMD: See heavy to very heavy rainfall over parts of Karnataka till Tue
--IMD: See heavy to very heavy rain over parts of west India till Sunday
MUMBAI – The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for severe heatwave in parts of west Rajasthan till Friday. A severe heatwave indicates actual maximum temperatures in a given region exceeding 47 degrees Celsius. The weather department has also forecast heatwave conditions in parts of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and east Rajasthan till Friday, in west Rajasthan on the weekend, and in southern Uttar Pradesh and northern Madhya Pradesh till Thursday.
The department also sees hot and humid weather in Odisha till Thursday. Warm night conditions are likely in parts of southern Haryana, Jammu, Kashmir, Punjab, west Rajasthan, south Haryana, and east Rajasthan till Friday, it said.
Meanwhile, the weather agency has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over parts of Kerala and coastal and south interior Karnataka till Tuesday. Isolated heavy rainfall is likely over parts of south India till Tuesday as well, the agency said.
In west India, the weather bureau sees heavy to very heavy rainfall over central Maharashtra, Konkan, Goa, and Gujarat till Sunday. Heavy rainfall is also expected over the same regions and Marathwada till Sunday, the bureau said.
A wet spell accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds with speeds reaching 40-50 kilometres per hour is likely over northeast India in the next seven days, the weather department said. Heavy rainfall is also seen over parts of the region till Sunday, it said.
Isolated heavy rainfall is predicted over parts of east and central India till Friday, and over Uttarakhand till Saturday, the weather bureau said.
Conditions are favourable for the onset of the southwest monsoon over Kerala in the next three-four days, the weather agency said. It added that conditions are also favourable for the monsoon to further advance into some more parts of south Arabian Sea, Tamil Nadu, Lakshadweep, Bay of Bengal, northeast, and the remaining parts of the Maldives and Comorin area during the same period. End
Reported by Shreya Shetty
Edited by Nishant Maher
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