IMD Issues Yellow Alert for Mumbai, Thane & Palghar as Narmada River Overflows

IMD Issues Yellow Alert for Mumbai: IMD has issued a yellow alert for Mumbai, Palghar and Thane on Sunday.

Orange alert for Raigad on Sunday.

Mumbai saw heavy rain on Saturday. 6.80 mm average rainfall from 8 am to 10 pm in Mumbai City, 11.53 mm in Eastern suburb and 7.42 mm in Western suburb as per BMC.

Meanwhile on Saturday night, the Jogitikariya bridge on Dindori to Jabalpur route in Madhya Pradesh was submerged in water due to heavy rainfall and Narmada river overflow. State Disaster Response Force was present at the spot.

Satish Dwivedi, Sub-divisional Police Officer, Dindori told ANI that the river is flowing over the Jogitikariya bridge and traffic from both sides has been diverted.

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“The Narmada River is in spate. The river is flowing over the Jogitikariya bridge. Traffic from both sides has been diverted... Adequate security arrangements have been made here. Police, Home Guard, and SDRF teams are deployed,” Mr. Dwivedi told ANI.

On Saturday, IMD had issued red alert for Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Goa for extremely heavy rainfall in these regions.

"The Depression over east Madhya Pradesh and north Chhattisgarh moved nearly westwards with a speed of 12 kmph during the past 6 hours and lay centred at 2330 hrs IST of today, the 26th July, over the same region, near Lat. 23.3°N and Long. 81.0°E, about 30 km south-southeast of Umaria (Madhya Pradesh), 110 km east of Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) and 170 km east-southeast of Damoh (Madhya Pradesh). It is very likely to continue to move westwards across Madhya Pradesh and weaken gradually into a well-marked low-pressure area by tomorrow, the 27th July, 2025," the IMD said in a post on X.

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Red alert has been issued for North Seoni, Mandla/Kanha, South Khandwa, South Khargone in Madhya Pradesh and Nanded, Parbhani, Hingoli in interior Maharashtra indicating heavy rainfall with high probability of cloud-to-ground lightning.

Parts of east Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, south Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra, south Kerala, south Chhattisgarh, southeast Uttar Pradesh (Kanpur), south Punjab, south Haryana, Gangetic West Bengal are under orange alert for moderate rainfall and cloud-to-ground lightning.

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