India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued yellow alert warnings for rainfall, thunderstorms and lightning over many parts of country including Central and Southern regions for the next four days. The IMD said, southwest monsoon has further advanced into some more parts of central Arabian Sea, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and most parts of Bay of Bengal. More from our correspondent:

With the further advancement of southwest monsoon, light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning is expected over Konkan, Goa, Maharashtra, Marathwada, Saurashtra, Kutch, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Rayalaseema, Telangana and Karnataka during the next four days. The IMD also forecasted widespread rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning over North East region, West Bengal and Sikkim during the same period. Rainfall and thunderstorms are likely at a few places over Northwest India today. The weather department said that similar conditions are also likely to occur over Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand for the next two to three days. On heatwave, IMD said that severe heat wave conditions are likely to prevail over some parts of Uttar Pradesh till Monday. Heat wave conditions are very likely in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and Odisha till the next two to three days. This is Pallavi Parmar for Akashvani News, Delhi.

 

The IMD also forecasts that the conditions are favourable for further advancement of southwest monsoon into some more parts of some parts of south Chhattisgarh, South Odisha and remaining parts of Bay of Bengal during the next 3-4 days.

 

 
Meanwhile in Delhi, the IMD predicted dust storms and thunderstorms for the next two days. The maximum temperature in the national capital is likely to hover around 43 degrees Celsius today.