IMD Yellow Alert for Varanasi as Season Rain Hits 794.2 mm, 15% Above Normal

The India Meteorological Department’s Uttar Pradesh Regional Meteorological Centre kept Varanasi under a yellow alert for Thursday, 10 September 2026, as senior scientist Dr Atul Kumar Singh flagged heavy-rain and thunderstorm risk for the city and a two-day rain outlook. The same briefing stream put season-to-date rainfall at 794.2 millimetres against a 50-year normal of 691.8 millimetres — roughly a 15 per cent surplus for the monsoon tally so far.

Wednesday’s weather in the city was described as thunderstorm with lightning and about 40 millimetres of rain in the broader urban catch, with the maximum temperature near 33.5°C after Tuesday’s cooler 31°C and winds above 20 kilometres an hour. That citywide rain figure is an attributed meteorological summary for the urban area. It is not the same number as the official city observatory sheet.

The IMD city weather sheet dated 10 September 2026, retrieved for this desk, logged prior-day station rainfall at 0.6 millimetres, a maximum of 33.5°C and a minimum of 25.2°C, with relative humidity high through the evening observation. The same sheet’s forecast block for 10 September called for a partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers and carried a yellow warning for thunderstorm accompanied by lightning. Forecast rows for 11 September kept rain-or-thundershower language without repeating the yellow box.

Those two rain numbers must not be mashed together. The 0.6 millimetre stamp is the city station’s prior-day total on the sheet. The roughly 40 millimetre Wednesday figure is the scientist-attributed citywide thunderstorm account. Readers who treat them as one gauge will misread both the sheet and the alert. This pack reports both, labelled, and does not invent additional station identifiers or unofficial AWS totals.

The yellow alert on 10 September is a fresh weather lead against the earlier 8 September pack that carried Rajghat-side rain stamps near 42.6 millimetres and 39.6 millimetres in prior files. Seasonal surplus at 794.2 millimetres versus 691.8 millimetres is the cumulative context: the city is running wet of normal even when a single station day prints only a trace.

For residents, yellow thunderstorm-with-lightning language means short, intense cells, waterlogging risk in known low lanes, and caution on open terraces and under trees — operational weather advice, not a civic blame line. Schools, shopkeepers and traffic police already work inside that monsoon grammar; the scientist’s alert simply refreshes the watch for Thursday.

Temperature recovery to 33.5°C between thunderstorm days is common in eastern Uttar Pradesh breaks and does not cancel the rain risk. Humidity in the 80–95 per cent band on the sheet matches a moist boundary layer that can reload quickly when another cell organises.

Until a later IMD bulletin revises the city sheet or the Regional Centre withdraws the colour alert, Varanasi’s mid-September weather file sits on three attributed facts: a yellow thunderstorm warning for 10 September, a season total of 794.2 millimetres about 15 per cent above the 691.8 millimetre normal, and a clear separation between the station’s 0.6 millimetre prior-day rain and the ~40 millimetre citywide Wednesday thunderstorm account.