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The South Peninsula has proved an outlier in terms of rainfall recorded during the season beginning March 1 with a surplus of 67 per cent and looking to consolidate its position further.
On Friday evening, overflying aircraft spotted rain clouds over Mysuru and Madikeri and along Mangaluru-Udupi-Murdeshwar and Hubballi in Karnataka, extending into Panaji in Goa; and Ratnagiri, Kolhapur in West Maharashtra.
Fresh clouds
To the South, fresh clouds covered the Delta districts in Tamil Nadu having drifted in from Sri Lanka, which was in line of being accosted by massive cloud banks moving over South-West Bay of Bengal and Equatorial Indian Ocean.
A raft of cyclonic circulations over the land in association with a prevailing weak western disturbance over North-West India and an incoming successor have triggered clouding over parts of Central India and thundershowers in the North-West.
This is expected to bring some relief from the building summer heat, which had pushed beyond 43 deg-Celsius mark at Idar in Gujarat last week as the causative seasonal high-pressure area from West Asia beckoned.
Seasonal deficit
The seasonal rainfall for the country, as a whole, has been in deficit to the extent of 48 per cent, even with the surplus being reported from the South. Regionally, the deficit was the highest in Central India at 72 per cent.
North-West India did not lag too far behind with a deficit of 65 per cent, while the shortfall over East and North-East India was estimated at 43 per cent.
Forecast for the next two weeks said that overall rainfall activity will be above normal for the North-East, adjoining East India and Western Himalayan region during the first week (April 5 to 11). It will be near normal over rest of the country.
During the second week (April 12 to 18), the rainfall activity will be above normal over in the North-East and adjoining East India and Western Himalayan region and near normal over the South Peninsula.
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