The monsoon has made a quantum jump in coverage with the rains advancing into entire Madhya Pradesh, East Uttar Pradesh and most of West Uttar Pradesh by noon today.
Entire Jammu & Kashmir, most parts of Uttarakahand, Himachal Pradesh and parts of Punjab too have been covered, with its northern limit showing significant lateral movement to the North.
It has lately entered part of East Rajasthan, after running over the entire Central and East India during the ongoing phase of revival, India Met Department (IMD) said.
Its northern limit passes through Veraval, Amreli, Ahmedabad, Udaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Aligarh, Tehri, Una and Amritsar across Gujarat, East Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.
Conditions are favourable for its further advance into remaining parts of Rajasthan, West Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and entire Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi during the two days.
This would mean that the monsoon would be able to cover the the entire landmass ahead of the scheduled July 15, beating at least two instances of recess in between.
An IMD outlook said that the ongoing pre-monsoon thunderstorm activity over North-West India would continue for another day.
TROUGH OVER LAND
Meanwhile, the East-West trough over land from Punjab-to-East Assam has changed alignment to West Rajasthan-to-North-West Bay of Bengal across north Madhya Pradesh, South-East Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Odisha.
This should gradually represent the crucial monsoon trough over North India that determines the health and status of the monsoon over the country's farming heartland.
A persisting cyclonic circulation over South Bangladesh has since shifted base back to Coastal Odisha and adjoining North-West Bay.
This is now expected to start moving in a typical North-North-West track along the East-West trough, bringing heavy to very heavy rain under its footprint.
This is even as the offshore trough runs from South Gujarat coast to North Kerala coast, which means that the monsoon is weak along the rest of the coast of Kerala to the South.
HEAVY RAIN FORECAST
Forecast for today said that heavy to very heavy rain may lash isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Coastal and South Interior Karnataka.
It will be heavy over Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, West Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, north Gujarat region, Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Vidarbha, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, the North-Eastern States, Jharkhand and Kerala.
Tomorrow, heavy to very heavy rain is forecast Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,West Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Coastal and South Interior Karnataka.
Heavy rain is likely over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, East Madhya Pradesh, Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Vidarbha, Telangana, the North-Eastern States, hills of Bengal, Jharkhand and Kerala.