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The North-East Monsoon has arrived in the Andaman Sea, according to an update from the Thailand Meteorological Department.
The easterly wind regime has established well over upstream Gulf of Thailand and the Thai mainland, the update further said.
Easterly windsOver the Bay of Bengal, the winds are slowly but surely tuning to being easterly. They would straighten out to the east fully after the southwest monsoon exits mainland India.
This turning of winds is expected to happen as an elongated trough off southeast Sri Lanka extends influence over southwest Bay of Bengal and eases up the flows into peninsular India.
The Thai Met Department said strong north-easterly winds prevailed over Gulf of Thailand with scattered to fairly widespread rain and isolated heavy rain with high winds.
Forecast into Thursday said that both sides of Gulf would remain cloudy with fairly widespread thundershowers and isolated heavy rain with high winds.
‘Good build-up’North-easterly winds are expected to range between 20 and 35 km/hr in speed. The Andaman Sea too is expected to remain cloudy and windy with scattered thundershowers. Easterly winds are expected to clock between 15 and 35 km/hr in speed.
This is a ‘good enough’ build-up to northeast monsoon over peninsular India downstream, according to seasoned monsoon watchers.
Back home, India Met Department said that the southwest monsoon is preparing to leave more parts of east and central India during the next three to four days.
Conditions have become conducive for the exit after a remnant of cyclone Hudhud weakened and faded out over east India.
Rains forecastThe heavy to very heavy rainfall that the cyclone remnant caused overnight at many places of east Uttar Pradesh and Bihar had halted the South-West Monsoon withdrawal process from the east.
But the delay would only make easterly flows over the Bay of Bengal to consolidate and precipitate in due course the onset of North-East Monsoon along the eastern seaboard and peninsular India.
Meanwhile, weak easterlies have already fanned out over Tamil Nadu and adjoining Kerala on Wednesday.
This goes to indicate that it would not take too long for the South-West Monsoon to exit the landmass.
The Met has forecast rain or thundershowers to break out over most parts of south India from the weekend.
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