Pune Ghats Receive Heavy Rain, IMD Issues Yellow Alert for City and Surrounding Areas
Pune, 22nd September 2025: The ghat regions of Bhira and Tamhini in Mulshi taluka recorded significant rainfall in the last 24 hours, with 87mm and 75mm respectively, ending at 8:30 am on Sunday. Meanwhile, Pune city and nearby areas experienced comparatively lighter rainfall over the weekend.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for Pune city and its ghat sections for the next three days. Between 8:30 am on Saturday and 8:30 am on Sunday, other ghat locations including Lonavla, Thakurwadi, Walvan, Wangaon, and Shirota recorded rainfall ranging from 3mm to 40mm.
Catchment areas of Pune’s major dams received light showers. Temghar, Varasgaon, and Panshet dams recorded 1mm each, while Khadakwasla did not register any rainfall. The combined storage of the four dams stands at 29.12 TMC, or 99.89% of capacity, compared with 22.27 TMC (99.35%) during the same period last year.
The IMD has also issued yellow alerts for several districts in Marathwada, Konkan, and north and western Maharashtra, including Beed, Parbhani, Kolhapur, Satara, Sangli, Nashik, and Dhule, for the coming days.
“Light to moderate rain or thunderstorms at many or some places with isolated heavy rainfall is expected over Madhya Maharashtra in the next week, except on September 24; over Konkan and Goa on September 22 and during September 25-27; Marathwada on September 23-24; and Gujarat on September 22-23,” said an IMD official.
The Met department noted that conditions are becoming conducive for the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon from parts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh in the coming days.
Additionally, the IMD has issued a warning for fishermen, forecasting squally winds of 40-50 kmph, gusting up to 60 kmph, along with rough to very rough sea conditions over the north and adjoining central Bay of Bengal and off the coasts of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal during September 25-27. Fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea during this period and to return to the coast by September 24.
