Red rain alert for five Maharashtra districts, 'orange' warning for Mumbai

Updated On: 20 July, 2021 06:40 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI

A red rain alert also means authorities should take preventive actions such as evacuation of people from vulnerable areas and deploy rescue teams

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A torrential Dahisar river amid heavy rainfall in Mumbai. Pic/Satej Shinde

The India Meteorological Centre (IMD) on Tuesday issued a red alert for five Maharashtra districts, including Raigad and Pune, forecasting extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places, for the next two days.

It also issued an orange alert for Mumbai between Wednesday and Friday, indicating possibility of heavy to very heavy rainfall. The IMD's Mumbai centre forecast a ''very likely'' probability of "extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places" in five districts - Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Kolhapur and Satara.