As correctly predicted by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) several days ago, a significant low pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal on Sunday, marked by an east-west shear area of monsoon disturbance , which is a possible recipe for a potentially active monsoon. Conditions.
Satellite images on Sunday showed a large group of clouds over the west coast of Ratnagiri in Maharashtra and adjoining Saurashtra coast. From the Gulf, a narrow corridor of less intense clouds opened up over Vijayawada-Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Nanded-Waghala, Aurangabad and Nagpur.
West Coast Raised
First and foremost, the combination has strengthened the westerly rain-bearing monsoon winds across the Arabian Sea and the peninsula into the Bay of Bengal resulting in heavy to very heavy rainfall over Kerala, Mahe, Kerala, Mahe, Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan is. Goa and Gujarat on Saturday.
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Heavy to very heavy rainfall occurred over parts of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal Hills, Sikkim, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Madhya Pradesh, Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Vidarbha. Punjab and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Some of the highest rainfall (in cm) reported until Sunday morning are: Bageshwar-20; Bilaspur-18; Sirmapur and Kasargod-16; Araria and Nirmal-13; Nagarkurnool, Thrissur and Darjeeling-12 each; Dehradun-11; Ratnagiri, Champawat, Jalpaiguri, Kothagudem, Coimbatore, Ernakulum and Hamirpur-10 each; West Godavari, Yeotmal, Pathankot, Nilgiris, Samba and Karimnagar-9 each; Amraoti, Dang, Valsad, Rajkot, Alirajpur, Idukki, Kozhikode, Siddipet and East Sikkim-8 each; and Narmada, Dewas, Cannur, Jagulamba Gadwal, Raigad, South Goa, Kolhapur and Wanaparthy-7 each.
The IMD in its outlook for the next five days has said that widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely over the west coast and adjoining peninsular India. Heavy rains may occur in Konkan and Goa till Thursday and in Telangana on Monday.
Monsoon reaches Delhi
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is also very likely over Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Coastal and South Interior Karnataka, Kerala and Mahe during the next three days.
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In the northwest, westerly monsoon easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal have entered Delhi, Haryana and East Rajasthan from Saturday. The relative humidity has also increased over the region, potentially indicating that conditions are now favorable for further advance of monsoon over Delhi.
Outlook for the North-West
The remaining parts of West Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and some more parts of Rajasthan are also likely to experience seasonal rains till Monday. The IMD said that conditions may become favorable for Monsoon to cover the remaining parts of the country during the next two days.
Widespread rainfall is forecast over parts of North-West India during the next three days and heavy to very heavy rains are forecast for Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, North Haryana and North-West Uttar Pradesh . Rain is likely over South-East Rajasthan during the next five days.
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