Residents of North India woke up to cloudy conditions on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, as the monsoon season brought its first signs of rain. The IMD forecasts this rainy weather to persist through the weekend, prompting the issuance of alerts for intense rainfall and thunderstorms in various areas of Northeast India over the next seven days.
The forecast includes predictions for heavy downpours in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh between the 25th and 28th; Vidarbha on the 25th; Gangetic West Bengal from the 25th to the 27th; Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on the 25th, 28th, and 29th of June; Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan from the 25th to the 30th; Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh from the 25th to the 27th; East Uttar Pradesh from the 27th to the 30th; and Uttarakhand from the 25th to the 27th. Also, heavy rainfall is expected in West Rajasthan on the 27th, East Rajasthan on the 27th, Haryana and Punjab on the 25th and 26th, and West Uttar Pradesh on the 25th and 27th.
Furthermore, the monsoon is projected to affect parts of Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, and Gujarat, beginning today and continuing until approximately June 29, 2025. The Southwest monsoon has also advanced over the remaining parts of the north Arabian Sea, some parts of West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, the remaining areas of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, and additional areas of Punjab.