The Hindu Business Line : Depression crosses over; rain deficit stays at 2%

The Wednesday's depression over the Bay of Bengal crossed land amid forecasts that more than one cyclonic circulation may settle into position one after the other during the next 5 to 6 days in the basin.

This will also be accompanied by a gradual weakening of the monsoon flow over the Arabian Sea, with negative implications for rainfall episodes over the West coast and the Southern peninsula, said Dr Akhilesh Gupta of the Department of Science and Technology.

DEFICIT AT 2 PC

Meanwhile, seasonal rainfall deficit up till August 16 (Wednesday) is unchanged from last week at 2 per cent for the country as a whole. The rainfall for the week ending concurrently was plus 1 per cent.

Northwest India and Northeast India have totted up huge weekly deficits of 34 per cent and 54 per cent respectively, which got reflected in their performance up till August 16 — cumulative deficits of 7 per cent and 27 per cent. South peninsula made modest gains thanks to the surplus of 8 per cent during the week.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has predicted that, going forward, the rains will become concentrated over Central and North India. But this should not be taken to Meanwhile, after crossing the land, the depression lay centred about 100 km East of Champa in Orissa on Thursday afternoon.

The system is likely to move West-Northwest and weaken gradually. necessarily mean that the monsoon might be going into a weak phase.

Under its influence, widespread rainfall with heavy to very heavy falls is likely over a few places in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh during the next two days. Widespread rainfall with heavy to very heavy falls is also likely in Orissa, Vidarbha and East Madhya Pradesh.

`LOW' SHIFTS

The other resident `low' over Southwest Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Southeast Rajasthan has shifted to Saurashtra and Kutch and the neighbourhood. The system is likely to move further West-Northwest and weaken over the next two days.

Intensity of rainfall over Gujarat State, Konkan, Goa and North Madhya Maharashtra is likely to decrease during next two days, but scattered to fairly widespread rainfall may continue.

Heavy to very heavy falls are likely over a few places in Gangetic West Bengal, North Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Saurashtra, Kutch and North Gujarat. Isolated heavy to very heavy falls are likely over South Gujarat, South Rajasthan, Southwest Madhya Pradesh, Konkan, Goa (including Mumbai), Madhya Maharashtra and Kerala.

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