Mumbai: The Indian Meteorological Department has issued an alert for heavy rain in Mumbai as well as several parts of Maharashtra today. In fact, heavy rain warning has been issued in Madhya Maharashtra and Vidarbha. With this, rain has started in Madhya Maharashtra including Vidarbha, Marathwada since yesterday. Similarly, a yellow alert has been issued for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Nashik, Aurangabad, Dhule, Nandurbar, Jalgaon, Jalna, Buldhana, Washim, Wardha, and Chandrapur districts.

Let me tell you that heavy rain has been recorded in many parts of Maharashtra for the last several days. On the other hand, meteorologists say that thundershowers are expected in Vidarbha and adjoining areas of Maharashtra. At the same time, parts of central and eastern India including South Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Coastal Andhra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh are likely to receive rain in the next few days. On the other hand, the IMD has issued a yellow alert to ensure that many parts of Maharashtra receive heavy rain on Wednesday, according to IMD. BMC says the city of Mumbai received 32.5 mm rainfall from 8 am to 2 pm on Wednesday.

On the other hand, the eastern suburbs recorded 12.72 mm rainfall, and the western suburbs recorded 17.0 mm rainfall. The MET department has said that light rain may occur in different areas between 18 and 21 in Delhi. In Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, moderate and heavy rainfall has been predicted between August 19 and August 23 with the monsoon knocking again. In addition, meteorologists said that good rainfall is likely to occur in the last 10 days of this month and this will suffice the shortage of rainfall in the capital.

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