The expansive monsoon session continued over northwest India, east and northeast India during the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning.
Global model forecasts suggest heavy rains would continue to last parts of these regions over the next couple of days.
PACIFIC TYPHOONS
Two back-to-back typhoons, ‘Tembin’ and ‘Bolaven,’ have been churning up the East China Sea to sustain the monsoon flows over the past few days.
Models forecasts persist with the already articulated view that a comparatively drier climes over Central India would migrate to north India by the weekend (August 25).
Ongoing rains in the north are expected to lose in intensity and withdraw themselves to the fringes of the north India adjoining the Himalayan foothills.
Rains would also have lifted from West Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat, even beginning to sign off from these regions marking end of the season here.
In the meantime, some rain would find its way into peninsular India. It is expected to be more pronounced towards the east coast along Chennai and adjoining south coastal Andhra Pradesh coast.
SOUTHERN SPELL
The wet spell is forecast to hold until midweek next week, these models suggest.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in an update that the monsoon was active over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim until Wednesday morning.
Over northwest India, similar conditions persisted over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh and west Madhya Pradesh.
The causative ‘low’ was located to over south Uttar Pradesh and adjoining north Madhya Pradesh.
RAIN ALERT
A rain alert said that heavy to very heavy rainfall would lash the Jammu division, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and east Rajasthan during the next two days.
Heavy rains have been forecast for Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
An extended outlook by the IMD valid for the next seven days predicted some rain for the western Himalayan region, the west coast, east and northeast India.