Kolkata, July 26 || As Kolkata and its adjoining areas continue to receive heavy rains for the last two days, resulting in prolonged waterlogging in several pockets, the Meteorological office on Saturday forecasted widespread rains across West Bengal till July 31.
While the intensity of rains will reduce slightly on Sunday, the rains will intensify from Monday onwards due to the possibility of the formation of another low-pressure area in the North Bay of Bengal, as per the forecast.
The Meteorological Office said that the low-pressure area off the West Bengal coast has moved at a west-northwest angle at a speed of 25 kilometres per hour in the last six hours.
On Saturday morning, its position was over Jharkhand, 20 km northwest of Ranchi, 120 km west-northwest of Jamshedpur. In the next 36 hours, it will move further in the west-northwest direction and will pass over Chhattisgarh, northeast Madhya Pradesh, and southeast Uttar Pradesh.
As a result, thunderstorms will continue in South Bengal in the next 24 hours. There is a possibility of very heavy rainfall in some places.