Lucknow, Aug. 19 -- With heavy rainfall forecast to persist across Uttar Pradesh, the India meteorological department (IMD) has placed multiple districts under red, orange, and yellow alerts. This spell of intense weather follows a welcome boost in monsoon activity, which has successfully pulled the state's seasonal rain deficit into the 'normal' category at 17% as of Tuesday morning. Alongside this, IMD also predicted scattered heavy rainfall across the state through August 23.

According to IMD, the western end of the monsoon trough has shifted north of its normal position towards the Himalayan foothills, running from Shahjahanpur and Varanasi through concentrated low-pressure areas in Jharkhand and on to the North-East Bay of Bengal vi...