India Meteorological Department( IMD) has forecast favourable conditions for further advancement of monsoon into Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan in next two days.
Talking to Akashvani News, Senior IMD Scientist R K Jenamani said that monsoon will reach Delhi and other areas in the subsequent in next 36 hours.
The IMD has also forecast extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places over Gujarat Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh for the next 24 hours. The southwest monsoon is likely to arrive in Delhi by Friday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has indicated in its Wednesday morning bulletin.
The MeT Department predicted that heavy rainfall is very likely at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Costal Karnataka, East Rajasthan, Interior Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, Saurashtra and Kutch, Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Uttarakhand. This rainfall is likely to significantly reduce the temperature in the national capital, bringing maximum daytime highs down to approximately 33-35°C and nighttime lows to around 26°C..
“Conditions are favourable for further advance of Southwest monsoon over some more parts of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana; Delhi and remaining parts of West Uttar Pradesh during next 36 hours,” the IMD bulletin said.
The IMD has also sounded a yellow alert in Delhi-NCR on Wednesday, with its forecast suggesting generally cloudy skies with light to moderate rainfall, thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds ranging from 30 to 40 km/h.
Despite these fluctuations, the long-term average onset date has hovered around June 27, making this year’s forecasted arrival date consistent with the historical average but notably earlier than the recent past, including last year’s June 28 onset and June 30 in 2022.
Meteorological precursors signalling the arrival of monsoon include increased humidity levels, often exceeding 85-90 per cent, resulting in muggy weather conditions. This has been observed in Delhi over the past few days as humidity levels oscillated along this range, as per the IMD.
The easterly winds prevailing in the capital are also instrumental in carrying moisture inland, enhancing conditions favourable for rainfall. Sporadic pre-monsoon showers and thunderstorms have also occurred recently, weakening the summer heat, which, as a result, has yielded below normal day temperatures.