Thunderstorms, accompanied by lightning, gusty winds, and “moderate to intense” spells of rainfall are likely to occur at isolated places in Pune, Satara, Sangli, Ahmednagar, Osmanabad, Nandurbar, and Dhule districts of Maharashtra on Friday, the IMD said on Thursday. As a result, officials said Mumbai will remain cloudy and quite humid for the next few days. The humidity level in the city was about 78 per cent on Thursday.

The forecast by the Mumbai and Nagpur regional meteorological centers comes at a time when the Indian Meteorological Department has issued “severe weather warnings” for the entire country except some areas in northwest India.