Nepal, which shares the borders with the monsoon-hit Himalayan foothills of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, may not have seen peak of monsoon just yet.
This is even as report say more than 85 people are perishing and another 140 missing in the country after three days of heavy rain in the rugged terrain of the country.
In fact a core of the monsoon that has been active over the western Himalayas is shifting to the east, giving rain-hit Uttarakhand in India much-needed respite.
This would mean that rains would now target Nepal, Sikkim, foothills of West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, and not to speak the kingdom of Bhutan that nestles right in their midst.
The Climate Prediction Centre of the US sees concentrated heavy rain in the areas mentioned above outside Nepal borders and which are part of India.
RAINS FOR TN
The heavy monsoon may continue into the last days of the week, according to the outlook.
Alongside, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, south interior Karnataka, interior Maharashtra, other parts of central and adjoining peninsular India and the west coast are expected to start receiving rain in a renewed spell from today.
Contrary to earlier forecasts, a full-fledged low-pressure area may not materialise off the Tamil Nadu coast to preside over the new spell.
It will instead be a trough digging deep into the south peninsula that would initiate the rains; a ‘low’ could form as ‘an afterthought’ over land over western Maharashtra by the weekend.
LESS INTENSE
The US Climate Prediction Centre sees moderate to heavy rainfall over most of the peninsula growing heavier along the west coast right until the end of the month.
Meanwhile, the intensity of monsoon along the foothills of northwest India may come down from early this week.
Overall rain deficit has been brought down to a new low of 16 per cent, but central India has dropped down to two-digits at 11 per cent.
East and northeast India appeared to have made most gains during the past few days with the deficit there being brought down to 16 per cent from 26 per cent.
Northwest India continued to return the worst at 26 per cent, and south peninsula followed with 17 per cent as per latest statistics available.