IMD predicts extremely heavy rain in Maharashtra's Palghar over next 24 hours

Maharashtra's Palghar is expected to witness extremely heavy rainfall as a result of the low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal, the IMD said on Monday.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted extremely heavy rainfall in and around Maharashtra's Palghar over the next 24 hours. Isolated heavy to very heavy rain could also lash parts of Mumbai, Raigad and Ratnagiri, said the weather department. Deep Depression over north interior Odisha, near latitude 21.4°N and longitude 85.5°E, close to Keonjhargarh (Odisha).Continue to move west-northwestwards across north Chhattisgarh & Madhya Pradesh during next 48 hours. To weaken into a Depression during the next 12 hours. pic.twitter.com/DUpQGrNGjt Head of the IMD's Weather Forecasting Division in Pune, Dr Anupam Kashyapi told India Today, "The formation of low-pressure systems one after another is giving a very heavy spell of rain in northern Maharashtra, northwest Maharashtra as well as Ratnagiri and Raigad districts."