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Monsoon on withdrawal mode
Our Bureau
Thiruvananthapuram
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Sept 26
THE anti-cyclonic circulation is bearing down on the west and northwest, creating favourable conditions for withdrawal of the southwest monsoon from these regions during the next 2-3 days.
Meanwhile, Typhoon Damrey roared across the South China Sea as a Category-2 typhoon to cross Hainan in southern China on Monday. It has since weakened to being Category-1, and was located west-southwest of Hainan on its westward course.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC) has forecast that the storm will make a final landfall in Vietnam in 24 hours and then dissipate over northern Laos in 48 hours.
A follow-up system, Tropical Storm Longwang, is seen tracking more or less the same path as Typhoon Damrey did in the western Pacific. The storm was upgraded from being a tropical depression on Monday.
Dr Akhilesh Gupta of the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) said the pressure gradient over mainland India had weakened considerably to be able to host migrating remnants from these systems over the next 4-5 days.
An NCMRWF update said rainfall activity has reduced significantly over Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir in the 24 hours ending Monday morning.
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