The vigorous monsoon current entered west Rajasthan, the last meteorological outpost on the northwest front, overnight on Thursday.

Elsewhere, it was active over east Rajasthan, Konkan-Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha during the 24 hours ending in the morning.

Mahabaleshwar throttled

The monsoon reserved its virulent best during the period for western Maharashtra, with popular hill station Mahabaleshwar recording 43 cm of rain.

Other centres receiving major rainfall were Dahanu-27 cm; Silvasa and Bhira-19 cm each; Shirali-14 cm; Phulbani, Honavar and Karwar-13 cm each; Ratnagiri-12 cm; Valsad-11 cm; and Goa-10 cm.

On Thursday, as expected, the rain-driving low-pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal managed to wash over land but weakened in the process.

It lay as a conventional ‘low’ this morning over interior Odisha. It is expected to move further west-northwest during the next two days.

System weakens

The weakening came after an eye-to-eye duel with a cyclonic air circulation over west Madhya Pradesh in which the latter seemed to have come out unscathed.

It only moved a little west-northwest with one foot over adjoining Rajasthan, the India Meteorological Department update said.

The rainfall outlook for the rest of the day and two days that follow is as follows:

Today : Heavy to very heavy falls with isolated extremely heavy falls over Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha, and Konkan-Goa. It will be heavy to isolated very heavy over east Gujarat, Saurashtra, Kutch, Madhya Pradesh, coastal and south interior Karnataka, Madhya Maharashtra, east Rajasthan, Telangana, north interior Karnataka and Kerala.

Heavy falls

Tomorrow, Friday, Aug 1: Heavy to very heavy falls over Chhattisgarh and Konkan-Goa. Heavy with isolated very heavy falls over Saurashtra and Kutch.

Heavy to very heavy rainfall over Madhya Pradesh, east Gujarat, coastal and south interior Karnataka, and Madhya Maharashtra.

Heavy falls over Vidarbha, Assam, Meghalaya, east Rajasthan, Telangana and Kerala.

Aug 2, Saturday: Heavy to very rainfall over Konkan-Goa, west Madhya Pradesh, east Gujarat, Saurashtra, Kutch and coastal and south interior Karnataka.

Heavy rainfall over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, east Madhya Pradesh, Chhattishgarh, Assam, Meghalaya and Kerala.

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