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Peninsular India is forecast to wake up to sporadic showers even as ‘October heat' has been building up over vast areas of the country.
The typical showers during the monsoon transition period are now gradually expanding their footprint from southeast to southwest peninsula.
RAIN FORECAST
An India Meteorological Department (IMD) outlook valid until Sunday said that fairly widespread rainfall activity would break out over peninsular India.
Winds in the lower level are slowly turning northeasterly to easterly over peninsular India indicating the transition from southwest monsoon to northeast monsoon.
Withdrawal process
This is even as the IMD said that the withdrawal process of the southwest monsoon has resumed on Tuesday.
It has now exited Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, many parts of Bihar, some parts of Jharkhand, north Chhattisgarh and north Maharashtra.
During the 24 hours ending Tuesday morning, fairly widespread rainfall occurred over interior Karnataka and the Andaman Nicobar islands.
OVERNIGHT SHOWERS
It was scattered over Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, coastal Karnataka and Kerala.
Isolated rain fell over Gangetic West Bengal, Sikkim, the North-eastern States, Jharkhand, Orissa, Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Vidarbha and Tamil Nadu.
Satellite imagery on Tuesday afternoon showed the presence of convective (rain-bearing) clouds over parts of peninsular India, south and adjoining central Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
TO CONTINUE
A short-term forecast valid for the next two days said that fairly widespread rain or thundershowers would be unleashed over peninsular India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Isolated rain or thundershowers has been forecast over the North-eastern States, West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa, south Chhattisgarh, south Maharashtra and Goa.
Northeast monsoon
Northeast monsoon is normally known to set over Tamil Nadu and the rest of peninsular India between October 15 and 20.
But this can happen only after the southwest monsoon has been declared by the IMD as having withdrawn fully from mainland India.
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