3 min readBengaluruAug 27, 2025 06:02 PM IST
First published on: Aug 27, 2025 at 06:02 PM IST
Jammu and Udhampur received exceptionally heavy rainfall on Wednesday, shattering all previous rain records for the monsoon season.
More than 30 people were killed in a massive landslide enroute to Vaishnodevi temple amid the continuous rain in the last 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir. Mobile and internet services which were affected in the downpour were later restored.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Wednesday said that the 24-hour rainfall recorded in Jammu was 296mm, breaking a 52-year-old August rainfall record for the location which was 272.6mm (August 9, 1973). Another record rainfall Jammu experienced was nearly a century ago, when the 24-hour rainfall stood at 228.6 (August 5, 1926).
Similarly, the 24-hour rainfall recorded at Udhampur on Tuesday was 629.4mm, making it the wettest day across seasons and months.
Previous wettest day was recorded on July 31, 2019 (342mm). Tuesday’s total rainfall was more than half of Udhampur’s total monsoon seasonal rainfall of 1,071mm. In August, the location’s mean August rainfall is 418mm.
Damaged remains of a bridge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway due to heavy rainfall, in Udhampur. (Source: PTI Photo)
The ongoing spell of rainfall experienced over the north and northwest India has been causing extensive damage to the region, including Jammu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and parts of Gujarat.
According to the Met department, there are strong interactions over north India between a stream of western disturbances and the moist winds flowing-in from the Bay of Bengal that triggered such extreme rainfall over Jammu and neighbouring areas.
“Though the rainfall intensity will reduce over Jammu after Wednesday, heavy rain will still prevail. We have issued a ‘yellow’ alert for the next three days,” a senior meteorologist from the National Weather Forecasting Centre, New Delhi, said.
On Wednesday, many states spanning Goa, Lakshadweep, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Jharkhand, Haryana, Vidarbha, Madhya Maharashtra, Assam, and Kerala too recorded widespread heavy rainfall, IMD said.
A well-marked low pressure area formed in the Bay of Bengal, off Odisha coast and this system is likely to move westwards along Odisha during the next 24 hours, the department stated. The monsoon trough continued to run along its normal position.
In this view, the IMD has warned of very heavy to extremely rainfall (150 – 200mm or more in 24-hours) along the coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan, Kerala and coastal Karnataka during the next two days.
Structures partially submerged following heavy rainfall, in Udhampur. (Source: PTI Photo) 
Damaged remains of a bridge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway due to heavy rainfall, in Udhampur. (Source: PTI Photo)
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