IMD East UP 24 Sep: Heavy Rain Today; Very Heavy 25

The India Meteorological Department’s East Uttar Pradesh subdivision table issued on Thursday 24 September tightens the rain risk for Varanasi and the wider Purvanchal belt through the end of the month.

According to the official warning page, Day 1 — Thursday 24 September — now carries heavy rain with thunderstorm and lightning and a squall risk. Friday 25 September and Saturday 26 September are marked more sharply: very heavy rain with the same thunderstorm, lightning and squall group. Sunday 27 September stays on heavy rain with thunderstorm and squall language. Monday 28 September through Wednesday 30 September keep thunderstorm and lightning with squall wording, without a separate heavy-rain flag on those three days.

That sequence is not a reprint of Wednesday’s product. The earlier East UP sheet, dated 23 September, had cleared 23–24 September, opened heavy rain on 25 September, flagged very heavy rain only on 26 September, kept heavy rain on 27 September, and returned to no warning on 28–29 September. Thursday’s update pulls heavy rain forward onto today, stretches the very-heavy tag across both 25 and 26 September, and extends thunderstorm-squall language through 30 September. Commuters, farmers and site supervisors reading both tables side by side will see an earlier start and a longer active stretch.

Varanasi sits inside the East Uttar Pradesh subdivision coverage of this product. The warning does not name every district line by line on the public table; it is a subdivision-level signal. For city-scale observations — rain groups, visibility and hourly temperatures at Babatpur — the VEBN METAR feed remains the tighter instrument record. The IMD table is the forward look.

Heavy and very heavy rain flags in IMD language are thresholds, not a guarantee that every ward will flood. They do tell municipal drainage teams, railway control rooms and school administrators to watch the 24–27 September window more closely than the quieter days that Wednesday’s table had suggested for today. Thunderstorm and squall groups add a short-period wind and lightning hazard on top of the rain totals.

Anyone planning outdoor work, a ghat visit after the recent flood recession, or a road run toward the Cantonment and airport corridor should treat Thursday through Sunday as the active alert stretch under this Thursday issue. If IMD revises the table again before the weekend, the later bulletin will supersede these day codes.

The warning page lists the date of issue as 24 September 2026. That stamp is the cleanest way to keep Thursday’s product distinct from Wednesday’s live East UP piece already on the Dalimss record. Readers comparing the two should note the shift: heavy rain now on 24 September, very heavy rain on both 25 and 26 September, and thunderstorm-squall language holding through 30 September.

For Banaras households still drying ground floors after the August–September rise, the practical reading is simple. Thursday itself is no longer a clear day on this table. Friday and Saturday carry the strongest very-heavy tags, Sunday stays heavy, and the storm language continues into next week. Roof repairs, open drainage mouths and unfinished silt piles on ghat stairs are the places that fail first when a very-heavy day lands on already wet ground.

Railway passengers using Cantt and Banaras stations should expect the usual caution language if thunderstorm cells build on the East UP belt — not because this bulletin names a particular train, but because heavy rain and squall groups are when OHE and yard work slow. School and college administrators watching the same window may prefer flexible outdoor schedules rather than fixed open-ground programmes.

The subdivision product is issued for East Uttar Pradesh as a block. Varanasi’s desk is tracking the East UP lines only for this story. Pair it with the airport METAR sheet for what the instruments are seeing now, and treat the IMD table as the official look ahead through 30 September unless a later issue replaces it.