Bright sun and clear skies prevail over most parts of the country except in patches over East India and Peninsular India as the monsoon weakened just ahead of entering the half-way mark.

Satellite pictures showed monsoon clouds are hovering above Shahjahanpur, Aliganj, Bahraich, Faizabad, Sultanpur, Hamirpur, and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh this morning.

String of storms

Another bank of cloud hung over the tri-junction of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Chhatitisgarh marked by Chopan, Garwa, Singrauli, Bijuri, Rewa, Maihar, and Ambikapur.

Clouds are also located in Odisha and Jharkhand over Biramitrapur, Rourkela, Bhadrak, Jaleshwar and Kontai and in Bengal over Kharagpur and Asansol.

In the South, coastal Andhra Pradesh housed the clouds over an area extending from Kavali to Nellore, Venkatagiri and Ponneri, just to the north of Chennai.

Meanwhile, the monsoon has been apportioned by three tropical storms in the North-West Pacific, bearing the names of Noru (earlier a typhoon), Nesat and Haitang.

Tropical storm Noru is languishing over the open Pacific waters south of Japan, while a weakened tropical storm Nesat is heading for a second landfall over the Chinese coast after hitting Taiwan earlier.

Bay remains silent

Tropical storm Haitang is the latest in the series prowling the waters to the north-east of the Philippines and looking to push towards Taiwan.

Monsoon flows from the Arabian Sea/West Indian Ocean are being directed feed into these systems since there is no low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal to anchor them and divert into India.

The flood-hit areas of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan have now slipped into disquiet after successive weeks of sustained heavy rain, high winds, and bad weather.

A weather tracker of the US Climate Prediction Centre does not see any major development in the seas surrounding India anytime soon, signalling weak monsoon conditions over the landscape.

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