The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has announced that several states including Bihar, Jharkhand, South Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, and East Madhya Pradesh are expected to experience heavy downpour on Saturday. West Madhya Pradesh should also prepare for intense rainfall on August 3 and 4, while Gujarat, Konkan, and Goa are anticipated to face similar weather conditions on August 3.
Over the next 3-4 days, the monsoon is predicted to remain active across Northwest, Central, and Eastern India. Isolated regions of East Madhya Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Konkan & Goa will see extremely heavy rainfall.
Isolated very heavy rainfall is also likely in East Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh, South Interior Karnataka, and Coastal Karnataka till August 4.
In the northeastern part of the country, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, and Bihar are forecasted to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall until August 6. Other northeastern states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura will also see substantial rainfall through the same period.
The low-pressure area currently situated over north Jharkhand has been drifting westward over the past six hours. It is now located about 60 km south of Gaya in Bihar and 90 km east-northeast of Daltonganj in Jharkhand. This weather disturbance is expected to continue its west-northwest movement, affecting Jharkhand, southeast Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, and adjacent regions in north Chhattisgarh over the next 48 hours.
