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The monsoon is expected to cover the entire country in the next two days, an India Meteorological Department update said on Wednesday evening.
This is more than two weeks ahead of the timeline of July 15 when it normally completes its run over the Indian landmass and advances beyond the international border in the North-West.
Frenzied run The rains covered Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, entire Jammu and Kashmir, most of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and parts of Punjab and east Rajasthan in a frenzied run overnight.
This was facilitated mainly by the deep depression that crossed the south Gujarat coast last evening, stood its ground for quite sometime while engaging a western disturbance over north-west India.
The deep depression has weakened one round into a depression by the evening and was located over Ahmedabad and neighbourhood. It is still capable of kicking up a lot of rain over north-west India. Heavy to very heavy rainfall has been warned of in the area during the next two days even as the system keeps moving east-northeast, weakens another round before hitting the foothills of the Himalayas.
‘Low’ in East Meanwhile, the low-pressure area over West Bengal (erstwhile Bay of Bengal depression) persisted on Wednesday.
Model predictions suggest that it may flare up as the Arabian Sea-born system loses strength in the foothills. India Met sees the ‘low ’retracing its track back towards Bihar/Jharkhand and leading another round of rain. Otherwise, the monsoon is forecast to pause for breath after a scorching run over the past two weeks. It may wind down activity drastically during the first week of July.
Most of the peninsula has already started drying up, and there is no forecast yet of any significant weather system taking shape in the neighbouring seas.
Drier westerlies Comparatively barren westerly winds are forecast to fill north and north-west India after the ongoing wet session ends.
Meanwhile, the rain surplus recorded for the country as a whole as on date is 24 per cent – 52 per cent in central India; 32 per cent in south peninsula; 4 per cent in east and north-east India.
The only Met subdivision with a shortage of rainfall is north-west India (-5 per cent). Even here, the extent of deficit has come down by a couple of notches from overnight.
The position should improve over the next two days given the outlook for heavy to heavy rain at many places.
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