Overview
- The India Meteorological Department says a deep depression that crossed the West Bengal–Odisha coast near Digha has moved inland and is driving heavy to extremely heavy rain across central, eastern and northern India.
- Authorities have issued district-level red, orange and yellow alerts, mobilized rescue teams and ordered preparedness measures as transport, schools and the Char Dham pilgrimage were suspended in Himalayan states.
- Maharashtra reported cloudburst-like downpours, school closures and local rescues in Raigad and Nagpur while IMD placed multiple districts under high alerts for extremely heavy rainfall.
- In Pakistan’s Punjab, an embankment breach in Ferozewala has submerged dozens of villages, left hundreds stranded and been linked to at least three child deaths as PDMA warns of more rain through early August.
- U.S. Weather Prediction Center mesoscale products show a separate threat from slow-moving, training storms in the northeastern U.S., and forecasters warn saturated soils and slow storm motion will prolong flash-flood risk into early August.