A keenly awaited low-pressure that showed up over northwest Bay of Bengal on Thursday has clambered up the Bangladesh coast but will still be able to pull in the monsoon along the East and West of India.
The ‘low’ has brought more areas of interior peninsula and almost North-East under rain cover. Rains have also checked into east Uttar Pradesh and east Madhya Pradesh by Thursday evening.
It has also covered most parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, entire Chhattisgarh and parts of Vidarbha.
On Thursday, its northern limit passed through Veraval, Surat, Nashik, Bidar, Adilabad, Damoh and Sultanpur, the Met Department said.
East coast It is likely to advance into remaining parts of north interior Karnataka, Telangana, east Madhya Pradesh and east Uttar Pradesh and more parts of Vidarbha during next two days.
The ‘low’ over Bangladesh is also forecast to roll down an impromptu trough along the East Coast right up to south coastal Andhra Pradesh/Tamil Nadu.
This would bring the eastern seaboard as also adjoining interior peninsula variously under a wet cover during next few days.
Heavy in east Rains are forecast to be very heavy to heavy over the North-eastern States and the Himalayan foothills in West Bengal and Bihar.
US-based models maintained their outlook for rain to grow along a narrow corridor along the foothills of adjoining Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the next week.
Spill-over rains may filter into adjoining plains with Delhi and other neighbourhood also forecast to receive first few monsoon showers (unlike ongoing pre-monsoon thundershowers) simultaneously.
This would come about as the south-easterly winds blowing into the trough interact with a western disturbance that is moving into Jammu and Kashmir.