The southwest Monsoon is likely to reach the city today, as per the weather department. "Rainfall intensity to gradually increase over parts of Maharashtra during next 4-5 days. Indication of expected severe weather in the next 5 days," said, Regional Meteorological Center, Mumbai, in a tweet.
According to the IMD dashboard, a Yellow alert has been issued in all districts apart from Mumbai, Thane and Palghar on Monday (May 29), while a Yellow alert has been issued for all southern districts of the state on Tuesday.
The IMD has also issued yellow alerts for the entire state for Thursday, and for all districts other than Palghar, Akola, Nanded, Gadchiroli and Nagpur for Friday.
Earlier, IMD had also predicted that light rainfall is likely in some districts of Madhya Pradesh in the next 24 hours, which will bring some relief to the residents of the state from the heat.