Heavy rains battered Sikkim, north Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh - where three people have died in flash floods - even as IMD on Sunday (June 28, 2026) said conditions are favourable for further advance of the southwest monsoon into northern States over the next five days.
Intense overnight showers lashed Mumbai’s suburbs on Monday (June 29, 2026), with several areas receiving over 100 mm in just four hours, triggering waterlogging and traffic disruptions in some pockets, civic officials said.
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a release that conditions are favourable for further advance of the southwest monsoon into some more parts of the North Arabian Sea and some areas of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, among other states, during the next two to three days.
