The South-West monsoon is getting busier over North-West and North-East India after an estranged cyclonic circulation headed back home from South Bangladesh and parked itself over Coastal Odisha and adjoining Bengal.
An East-to-West trough linking West Rajasthan and the North-West Bay of Bengal has appeared in time to receive the moisture floating in from the Bay and distribute it as rains over the Indo-Gangetic plains.
Heavy rain seen
Additionally, the trough would make for a highway for the cyclonic circulation in the Bay to move in and get traction in the typical West-North-West direction while moving towards North-West India.
An India Met Department (IMD) forecast Thursday said heavy to very heavy rain may lash Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,West Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Coastal and South Interior Karnataka.
Heavy rain is forecast for Uttarakhand,Punjab, Rajasthan, East Madhya Pradesh, Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra,Vidarbha, Telangana, the North-East, Odisha, Jharkhand and Kerala. Friday’s forecast said heavy to very heavy rain is likely over Uttarakhand, Konkan, Goa and Coastal Karnataka. It will be heavy over Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, the North-Eastern States, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala. Earlier on Wednesday, the monsoon had made a quantum jump in coverage with the rains advancing into entire Madhya Pradesh, East Uttar Pradesh and most of West Uttar Pradesh.
Into Delhi next
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.
Conditions are favourable for its further advance into remaining parts of Rajasthan, West Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and entire Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi during next 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. On Wednesday, it had also entered parts of East Rajasthan, after running over the entire Central and East India during the ongoing phase of revival. Its northern limit passed through Veraval, Amreli, Ahmedabad, Udaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Aligarh, Tehri, Una and Amritsar across Gujarat, East Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.