Monsoon set to strike Kerala on Tuesday (Lead)
Thiruvananthapuram May 29 (IANS) The southwest monsoon is likely to break over Kerala on Tuesday the IMD announced on Monday evening.
With good rains lashing Kerala on Monday the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its evening statement in Thiruvanathapuram said the present meteorological conditions indicate that conditions are favourable for onset of southwest monsoon over the state on Tuesday.
Simultaneously the onset is also likely over Lakshadweep coastal Karnataka some parts of Tamil Nadu and most parts of northeastern states in the next 24 hours said the IMD.
The onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala signals the arrival of monsoon over the Indian subcontinent and represents beginning of rainy season in the region.
According to the IMD s Delhi office genreally monsoon strikes Kerala in the first week of June.
The earlier prediction for Kerala was June 5 said IMD official M. Mahapatra.
The normal monsoon onset over Kerala is June 1 and since 2005 the IMD started to issue operational forecasts for the date.
The forecasts of the monsoon onset issued during the past 12 years (2005-2016) were proved to be correct every year except 2015.
Meanwhile cyclonic storm Mora over Bay of Bengal was 660 km southÂ-southeast of Kolkata and would cross Bangladesh s Chittagong on Tuesday.
IMD also predicts rough to very-rough sea conditions along Andaman Islands and along the West Begal coast on Tuesday May 30.
Private weather forecast agency Skymet s Director Mahesh Palawat said: This would affect the northeastern region and their are chances of heavy to extremely-heavy rains in Mizoram Manipur Nagaland and Tripura in next 24 hours. In Assam Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalayam there are chances of heavy rains in next two to three days said
As per IMD in past 24 hours rainfall had occurred at most places over Uttarakhand Haryana Chandigarh and Delhi east Madhya Pradesh Bihar Kerala and Andaman and Nicobar Islands; at many places over Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh; at a few places over Jammu and Kashmir Vidarbha in Maharashtra Gangetic West Bengal and Sikkim Assam and Meghalaya Chhattisgarh coastal Karnataka and at isolated places over north Rajasthan north Madhya Pradesh Odisha Telangana south interior Karnataka and coastal Andhra Pradesh.
However no significant change in maximum temperatures over the country are likely during next 2Â3 days IMD said.
Between June 3 to June 5 rain and thundershowers are very likely at many places over Kerala Lakshadweep Andaman and Nicobar Islands and northeastern states; at a few places
over east India and east Madhya Pradesh; at isolated places over rest of the country outside west India it said.
About the national capital and regions around it IMD predicts scattered rains till Friday June 2.
For Delhi there would be on and off pre-monsoon showers. By the end of June the monsoon would formally reach Delhi and Haryana according to the current weather pattern it said.
--IANS
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