The good tidings on the monsoon front were palpable on Friday as the previous day's low-pressure area over land in the east of the country ramped up as a depression and set up a round of wet session.

The ensuing heavy to very heavy rainfall has cleared whatever deficit (one per cent as of the previous day) had remained for the country as a whole bringing monsoon to ‘normal' as on date.

NEXT SURGE

This apart, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has lately kept a watch out for the next surge in monsoon to unravel over south peninsular India in its longer term outlook valid until Wednesday next, which is in agreement with the global models.

Meanwhile, on Friday, the depression was whipped up by the strong cross-equatorial flows across the peninsular, which found no ‘nuisance system' elsewhere to run into, except the ‘low' over east India.

VIGOROUS MONSOON

Widespread rainfall was reported from West Bengal, Sikkim, east Madhya Pradesh, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka, Kerala, and Lakshadweep.

A weather warning valid for the next two days said that isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur over east Rajasthan, Gujarat region, north Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan and Goa. It would be isolated to heavy to very heavy over Chhattisgarh and Vidarbha on Saturday. Heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur at a few places over Madhya Pradesh during next 24 hours.

Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers are likely over east India on Saturday and isolated thereafter.

Isolated rain thundershowers may also be unleashed over Saurashtra and Kutch on Saturday and scale up to being fairly widespread thereafter. Scattered rain/thundershowers would occur over remaining parts of the country outside west Rajasthan and southeast peninsular India where it will be isolated.

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