Weather Forecast | Orange Alert For Uttarakhand & Other States, No Warnings For Delhi: IMD

Weather Forecast For Delhi-NCR: IMD predicts moderate precipitation through tomorrow. No warning is issued. The sky will most likely be partly cloudy tomorrow. No notable precipitation after Oct 10.

IMD Predicts Heavy To Very Heavy Rainfall In Some States (Representational Image)

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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in some states on Saturday and issued an orange alert; however, it has not issued any warnings for Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) and has stated that the ongoing rainfall is likely to decrease from tomorrow onwards, news agency ANI reported. 

"All 12 stations in Delhi received rainfall today. Moderate rainfall to continue till tomorrow. No warning issued. Likely to reduce tomorrow, sky will remain cloudy. No significant rainfall from 10 Oct onwards, drizzling/light rain might happen": RK Jenamani, Scientist, IMD. 

Delhi | All 12 stations in Delhi received rainfall today. Moderate rainfall to continue till tomorrow. No warning issued. Likely to reduce tomorrow, sky will remain cloudy. No significant rainfall from 10 Oct onwards, drizzling/light rain might happen: RK Jenamani, Scientist, IMD pic.twitter.com/FTY9AmS1h4

— ANI (@ANI) October 8, 2022

The scientist further added that an orange alert has been issued to several states including Uttarakhand, East and West Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan and Gujarat. 

In a tweet, news agency ANI reported, "Heavy to very heavy rainfall might take place in some states for which an orange alert has been issued: 8th & 9th October for Uttarakhand, West UP, East UP, East Rajasthan and today for West MP & Gujarat: RK Jenamani, Scientist, IMD"

Delhi | Heavy to very heavy rainfall might take place in some states for which an orange alert has been issued: 8th & 9th October for Uttarakhand, West UP, East UP, East Rajasthan and today for West MP & Gujarat: RK Jenamani, Scientist, IMD pic.twitter.com/3KH1JDtKTW

— ANI (@ANI) October 8, 2022

The capital experienced a lot of rain on the evening of Friday into Saturday. The IMD predicted on Friday that the national capital would have similar rainy spells during the weekend. A low of roughly 28 degrees Celsius is forecast for Saturday and Sunday. 

The IMD tweeted, "Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh from October 7 to October 11, Haryana on October 8 and 9, East Rajasthan from October 7 to October 9, West Madhya Pradesh from October 7 to October 10, and East Madhya Pradesh from October 7 to October 11 are very likely to expect thunderstorm/lightning"

thunderstorm/lightning very likely over Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh and West Madhya Pradesh during 08th–10th; West Uttar Pradesh and East Rajasthan on 08th & 09th; Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi on 08th and East Madhya Pradesh on 11th October, 2022.

— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) October 8, 2022

Additionally, isolated extremely heavy rainfall is highly probable over East Uttar Pradesh on October 7, 2022, over West Uttar Pradesh from October 7 through 9, and over Uttarakhand from October 7 through 9.

Isolated very heavy rainfall very likely over Gujarat region on 08th and over Tamil Nadu on 09th October, 2022. o Fairly widespread/widespread light/moderate rainfall with isolated heavy falls very likely over SHWB & Sikkim during 08th-12th; Bihar on 11th October, 2022.

— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) October 8, 2022