Heavy rains likely over south and northwest India for the next 2 days


Many parts of mainland India, the northwest of the country, particularly Uttar Pradesh (UP), and a part of the northeast, including Assam and Meghalaya, are likely to see heavy rains on Wednesday, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. (IM D).

An area of ​​low pressure extends over Pakistan and borders western Rajasthan.

The western end of the monsoon trough, the low pressure line, is in its near-normal position, from Ganganagar in western Rajasthan to the Bay of Bengal, and the eastern end is near the foothills of the Himalayas.

There is a cyclonic circulation over the Ganges of West Bengal and another cyclonic circulation over southern Assam and its adjacent areas.

IMD forecast widespread and heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning over parts of West Bengal, Sikkim, Odisha, Bihar, the coast of Andhra Pradesh, Yanam in Puducherry, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura on Wednesday.

Due to an interaction between the easterly winds at the lower levels and the westerly trough at the middle levels, heavy and widespread rains with thunder and lightning are likely to occur over northwestern India and the western Himalayan region, including Punjab, Haryana and Delhi on Thursday and more central parts of the country on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Peninsular India, including Rayalaseema, the coast and inland southern Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (TN), are likely to receive heavy rains for the next three to four days. Very heavy rains are likely to occur in the southern interior of Karnataka, Kerala and TN on Wednesday and Thursday.

“Whenever the monsoon trough moves north, a convergence zone develops in the extreme south of the peninsula. As a result, it is likely that it will rain heavily in Kerala for the next few days. There is no likelihood of any low pressure zones developing over the Bay of Bengal. We expect the monsoon to be moderate in the rest of the country, ”said RK Jenamani, a scientist at the IMD’s national weather forecast center.

The monsoon rain over the country since June 1 is 9% more.

The data showed that rainfall exceeds by 20% the south of the peninsula and central India; 9% deficient in the Northwest; and an excess of 2% over the eastern and northeastern parts of the country.

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