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Tuesday’s depression over Madhya Pradesh has given up some steam, weakening twice over into a conventional low-pressure area in the same region.
It also brought some badly needed relief to the rain-deficient Met subdivisions of Vidarbha, Marathawada, and Madhya Maharashtra just to the contiguous south.
Heavy rainfall Heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated events of extremely heavy rainfall has been reported from west Madhya Pradesh during the 24 hours ending on Wednesday morning.
Other regions recording heavy to very heavy rainfall included Vidarbha, south interior Karnataka, Madhya Maharashtra and parts of east and north-east India, an India Met Department update said.
The overall rain deficit for the country as a whole is six per cent. North-West retained the lone surplus among the four geographical regions at five per cent.
The deficit was worst in South (21 per cent) but lower by one percentage point from overnight thanks to the rain in parts of east and central Maharashtra.
The deficit in central India is four per cent, while it is nine per cent in east and north-east India. The situation looks manageable in the former given the outlook for another round of rainfall from later this week.
But east and north-east India may slip further into red since the rain-driving low-pressure areas will be active over central and north-west India during this week and into the next.
Fresh spell soon On Wednesday, India Met has located a fresh cyclonic circulation in the Bay of Bengal where global models see the possibility of another ‘low’ developing.
But they had pointed to southerly coordinates along the Andhra Pradesh coast for it to materialise. It remains to be seen if the circulation would track to southeast to this location to evolve further.
The US Climate Prediction Centre sees rain from it spreading out over Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, and southern parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh during August 11-17.
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