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An intensified low-pressure area lying over land is showing what it can do to the prevailing monsoon conditions over most parts of the country during the first day or two.
Even as Central India and peninsula are experiencing unabated rains, a successor is expected to pop up over the same area of the Bay of Bengal in the next 3-4 days.
Kerala pounded
Kerala has received a pounding during the 24 hours ending this morning with authorities ordering schools and colleges in eight out of 14 districts closed for today.
The situation is not entirely different over the rest of the West Coast and Central India which are facing the fury of the monsoon.
Despite the rain fury, there are rain-deficient areas to the West (Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch) and East India, though the situation is expected to improve as the ‘low’s march in one after the other.
If the India Met Department (IMD) forecasts are of any indication, the belt of heavy to very heavy rain seem to be moving towards Vidarbha, Konkan and Goa, where the Met sees heavy to very heavy rains.
Heavy rain forecast
A heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy falls is forecast over East Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Saurashtra, Madhya Maharashtra, Coastal Karnataka and Kerala.
It will be heavy to very heavy over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab and the ghats region of Tamil Nadu. It will be heavy over the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, West Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Marathwada, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Interior Karnataka.
Monsoon ramp-up seen
While the monsoon is expected to ramp up over Central and West India, the IMD has forecast fairly widespread to widespread rainfall along the West Coast, North-East, East and adjoining Central India and the islands in the Bay from July 21 to 23.
Scattered to fairly widespread rainfall is likely over North-West India during this period, while it will be isolated to scattered over the rest of the country
According to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, the rains would escalate further over East and North-East India, adjoining Central India and North-West India during the next 5-10 days.
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