Mumbai braces for heavy rainfall today, IMD issues orange alert

Mumbai rains today: The Maximum City is all set to witness heavy rainfall on Saturday as the India Meteorological Department has sounded an orange alert for the Maharashtra capital today. In addition to Mumbai, the weather forecasting agency has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in the Palghar, Thane, Raigad and Ratnagiri districts of Konkan from 24 August onwards.
“The India Meteorological Department has predicted heavy rainfall in some areas of Mumbai city and its suburbs in the next 3-4 hours. Citizens are advised to be cautious,” the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said in an SMS alert to citizens on Saturday morning, reported PTI.
In addition Mumbai, the weather forecasting agency has issued orange alert for the Pune and Satara districts of western Maharashtra and Amravati, Bhandara, Chandrapur and Gondia districts of Vidarbha for Saturday.
Visuals shared by news agency PTI on social media platform X, shows mild rainfall in the metro city in morning.
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Several parts of Maharashtra are likely to witness heavy to very heavy rainfall in the coming days. The Met department has kept some districts of Konkan and western Maharashtra on orange alert on August 25 and August 26.
The IMD has also issued an orange alert for some districts of Konkan and western Maharashtra on August 25 and 26.
An orange alert is a warning issued to people during extreme weather conditions. An orange alert warning due to heavy rainfall is issued when the rainfall exceeds 64.5 mm in 24 hours, potentially disrupting normal life and causing flooding in low-lying areas.
Several parts of Maharashtra are likely to witness heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours due to an active low-pressure area over northern parts of West Bengal and adjoining areas of northeast Jharkhand and another over east central Arabian Sea off the Maharashtra coast, an IMD scientist told PTI.
Several districts of Mahrashtra and its Marathawada region are under yellow alert, predicting thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and light-to-moderate rainfall with gusty winds of 30-40 kmph speed.