Gujarat, Konkan and Goa (including Mumbai) are expected to receive heavy to very heavy spells of rain today as a low-pressure that formed over the Bay of Bengal yesterday, moved in over coastal Odisha last evening.
The same forecast is valid for Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh in what is proving to be a revival of the monsoon over Central India and adjoining peninsular India for the next few days.
'LOW' BEGINS TO KICK IN
The India Met Department (IMD) expects heavy rain to lash Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, the North-Eastern states, Marathawada, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, coastal and Interior Karnataka, and Kerala for the rest of today.
Heavy to very rain has been forecast tomorrow as well for East Gujarat, Konkan and Goa, and Saurashtra and Kutch, while it will be heavy for East Rajasthan, West Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, the North-Eastern states, Madhya Maharashtra, Telangana, and Kerala.
The 'low' is seen moving faster across Central India to reach Gujarat and further out of the country, on which path it would continue to pour down in torrents.
Meanwhile, indications suggest another low-pressure area is in the making in the Bay by the end of the month, promising another spell for Central and adjoining Peninsular India.
EXTENDED RAIN?
An outlook put out by the US Centres for Climate Prediction says that almost the whole of Gujarat and adjoining West Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa would witness heavy rain until September 2.
The rain will be particularly heavy over Saurashtra and Kutch, East and South Gujarat and Konkan and Goa, apart from parts of North Kerala and flood-hit Bengal and the adjoining North-Eastern states.
Along with Kerala, parts of south interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry may also make gains until September 2 from the ongoing revival phase of the monsoon.
The US Centre goes on to predict an even more spread out and heavy spell for Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, along with heavy to very heavy rain for East and North-East India during the week that follows i.e. September 3 to 9.
This period coincides with the beginning of the elaborate process of the withdrawal of the monsoon from the north-western parts (Rajasthan and neighbourhood) that normally kicks in from September 1.