IMD Logs 15 mm Rain at Varanasi; Saturday Forecast Keeps Thunder Spells in Play

The India Meteorological Department’s Varanasi city sheet dated 12 September 2026 logged 15 millimetres of rain in the 24 hours ending 08:30 IST, a minimum temperature of 24.3 degrees Celsius (1.3 degrees below normal), and a realised maximum of 32.4 degrees Celsius. Relative humidity at 08:30 stood at 85 percent. Sunset was listed at 18:07; sunrise tomorrow at 05:43.

Saturday’s forecast, 12 September, calls for a 26/34 Celsius band, partly cloudy, with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers. Sunday, 13 September, holds the same 26/34 partly cloudy outlook. Monday and Tuesday, 14–15 September, keep rain or thunder spells in play. Wednesday, 16 September, shifts to 27/35 partly cloudy. Thursday, 17 September, is listed at 27/36 partly cloudy.

This file is distinct from the already-published 10 September yellow-alert pack that carried a large season-surplus millimetre figure, and from the earlier 8 September 42.6 mm city rain piece. Fifteen millimetres in a single 24-hour window is a moderate stamp, not a cloudburst headline. A maximum of 32.4 degrees against a forecast band that tops at 34 keeps the realised afternoon inside a mild monsoon range rather than a heat-spike story.

Humidity at 85 percent and a minimum sitting 1.3 degrees below normal keep the monsoon feel in the mornings even when the afternoon forecast is only partly cloudy. City weather copy lives or dies on what the sheet actually prints. The seven-day table shows thunder spells midweek and clearer partly cloudy days later; that is the forecast, not a guarantee of dry streets.

The weekend band at 26/34 with possible rain or thunder cells is the near-term planning stamp for outdoor work, school schedules and ghat-side operations that still answer to wet stone. Midweek’s rain-or-thunder line on 14–15 September is the watch item inside the seven-day table. Late week’s shift toward 27/35 and 27/36 partly cloudy is the easing outline IMD has published, not a promise that drains will stay empty.

Lane drainage and open roofs still answer to rainfall totals more than to a single afternoon maximum. Fifteen millimetres overnight does not reset a monsoon ledger, but it does keep clay tiles and courtyard floors wet into the weekend window. Pairing that total with an 85 percent morning humidity reading explains why the city still feels monsoon-heavy even when the sky is only partly cloudy.

For residents, the practical read is short: 15 mm already banked, a coolish 24.3 minimum, a 32.4 realised maximum, sticky morning air, and a week that still allows thunder cells before a milder late stretch. IMD will refresh the city page daily. Until a later bulletin revises the numbers, Varanasi’s locked weather stamp for 12 September is the sheet above.

That sheet, not a second-hand paraphrase, remains the source of record for Saturday’s city weather file.