Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and South Rajasthan are bracing for widespread rainfall, while it would be fairly widespread over Madhya Maharashtra and Konkan over the next four days.
The India Met Department (IMD) released this outlook in the context of the presence of a well-marked low-pressure area over South-East Uttar Pradesh and adjoining North-east Madhya Pradesh.
DEPRESSION LIKELY
This hyper active rain-producing weather system is expected to intensify further into a depression over the next two days and move in a westerly direction towards West Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
The IMD has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over East and West Madhya Pradesh for today and tomorrow, before the weather starts to relent.
Gujarat is also under threat of a punishing wet spell from today, ranging from heavy to very heavy rainfall to isolated extremely heavy rainfall tomorrow and the day after.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall has also been forecast for Saurashtra and Kutch tomorrow, which would become isolated, extremely heavy rain the day after, the IMD said.
RAINFALL DEFICIT
Northern parts of Madhya Maharashtra and Konkan (including Mumbai) are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall for three days from today.
Meanwhile, the well-marked 'low' brought heavy to very heavy showers over Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar, East Uttar Pradesh and East Madhya Pradesh, but comparatively little over Jharkhand.
This is expected to improve the rainfall deficit scenario in the region, though Jharkhand could help with another round or two of rainy spells in the days to come.
In the South, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry received excess showers yesterday, but the monsoon kept away from the deficit Met subdivisions of south interior Karnataka and Kerala.
Forecasters, including K.J. Ramesh, Director-General, IMD, expect that the situation in these areas may change for the better next week with more helpful monsoon conditions developing.