Heavy rain as depression works up its best ahead of early exit

The monsoon depression held strong over north Chhattisgarh pouring its contents in heavy torrents over east India and adjoining central and peninsular India on Tuesday.

Very heavy rainfall lashed Chhattisgarh and Vidarbha overnight while it was heavy over Odisha, east Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, and south interior Karnataka.

Letting off steam The intensity of precipitation could start lifting from as early as Wednesday when the depression would begin to let off steam over Madhya Pradesh and east Rajasthan.

This would mainly result from a growing buzz in the North Bay of Bengal and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal ahead of what could likely constitute another low-pressure area.

The weakened depression over land would merely handle the baton to the successor system before petering out completely during the next three to four days.

This process is supposedly being underwritten by a remnant circulation taking off from typhoon Matmo in the northwest Pacific, currently approaching Taiwan for a landfall.

Typhoon remnant The emerging ‘low’ does not look being as productive as the predecessor, but would still make an impression on the monsoon system in north India.

The Climate Prediction Centre of the US sees a fresh wave of rain being initiated from Monday from the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coast into the rest of central and northwest India.

The ‘low’ would leave a trail of moderate to heavy showers into east Madhya Pradesh, south-east and west Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab.

Rain deficit down To the south-west, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka and north Kerala may witness heavy rain. It will be moderate over the rest of Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and parts of Telanagana.

The monsoon rain deficit has climbed down to the 20s as the season’s first monsoon depression took centre stage of the proceedings from Sunday.

All-India rain deficit stood at 29 per cent on Tuesday morning, a long way off the early 40s that the first month of June had left behind.

Latest region-wise rain deficits showed that north-west India (35 per cent) and central India (34 per cent) topped the charts, as was expected. They are followed by south peninsula (26 per cent) and east and northeast (22 per cent).

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