Forecast of heavy rains in various parts of India

Torrential downpours from the retreating monsoons predicted

Thursday, 17th September 2020

A depression may develop across the North-Western Bay of Bengal. Winds blowing along the western coast of India may become strong and may be accompanied by heavy rainfall across Odisha, Southern and Coastal Karnataka, state of Kerala and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on the 19th and 20th of September, informed India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The monsoon triggered trough is lying a little towards the north of its actual position—from the Ganganagar city in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan to Bay of Bengal in the East.

The depression’s western end is very likely to fall closer to the Himalayan foothills in the course of the forthcoming five days and its eastern end may move southwards from the 19th of September onwards.

Along the peninsular India, an east-west shear climatic zone is likely to run. This zone stands for the zone of the change in wind’s speed and direction. The given weather condition may persist across the coming 2 days.

Widespread and torrential rainfall may occur across the coastal Andhra Pradesh (AP), across Telangana, the central Maharashtra and Marathwada, the coastal and northern Karnataka, Mahe and Kerala in the forthcoming three days due to the depression.

On this Thursday warnings of lightning and thunderstorms have been forwarded to the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim, Chhattisgarh, Telengana, Gujarat, Southern Rajasthan, Central Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Marathwada, Uttarakhand, South East Uttar Pradesh by the IMD.

A privately managed weather forecast firm Skymet Weather has predicted that the depression may pick up strength in few days resulting in quite heavy rainfall across eastern and central India. Thus, the monsoons in India may draw to a close on a significantly wet note, said the company on this Wednesday.

Source: Hindustan Times