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SW Monsoon set to hit Kerala today

New Delhi:  The southwest monsoon will hit Kerala on Thursday amid favourable conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said...


New Delhi:  The southwest monsoon will hit Kerala on Thursday amid favourable conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said. Its onset has already been delayed by a few days.

Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall has been predicted at isolated places over Northeast India from June 8 to June 10, IMD sources have said.

Scattered rainfall and thunderstorms with isolated heavy rainfalls is likely over south Peninsular India and Islands, as well as over Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and East, Central and West India.

The weather is likely to remain dry over the rest of the country, the IMD said in its early morning report.

The northern limit of southwest monsoon continues to pass through 5 degree North and 72 degree East. “Condition are favourable for onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala today, June 3, 2021,” the IMD said.

The western disturbance is a trough in mid and upper tropospheric westerlies with its axis at 5.8 km above mean sea level roughly along longitude 80 degree east to the north of latitude 25 degree north persists, it said.

The weather office also informed that the trough with its axis at 3.1 km above mean sea level is roughly along longitude 90 degree east to the north of latitude 22 degree north persists.

The cyclonic circulation over central Pakistan and neighbouring areas is also extending up to 1.5 km above mean sea level. It also said that similar weather conditions also persist over south Chhattisgarh and its neighbourhood at 0.9 km above mean sea level.

According to the weather office, a cyclonic circulation is also there over east central Arabian Sea and neighbourhood between 3.1 km and 4.5 km above mean sea level.

 

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