Heavy rains to occur in West Bengal, Sikkim

Pune, Jun 20 (UNI) Heavy to very heavy rains are likely to occur at many places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Madhya Pradesh.

Heavy rains are likely to occur at many places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, east Uttar Pradesh, Haryana,Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.

Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at many places in west Uttar Pradesh, north Chhattisgarh, south Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka, Kerala, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and at a few places in Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, east Rajasthan, Vidarbha, south Chhattisgarh, north Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra, south interior Karnataka and Lakshadweep. They are also to occur at isolated places in west Rajasthan, Gujrat State, Marathwada, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and north interior Karnataka.

In the regions where the south-west monsoon is yet to set in, the day temperatures were appreciably below normal in some parts of west Rajasthan.

The south-west monsoon has been vigorous in east Madhya Pradesh and active in sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim. It has been subdued in Gujarat state, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and interior Karnataka.

Heavy to very heavy rains had occurred at most places in east Madhya Pradesh. Heavy rains had occurred at most places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and at many places in Assam and Meghalaya.

Rain or thundershowers had occurred at most places in Bihar, coastal Karnataka, at many places in east Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, and at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, east Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Konkan and Goa. They had occurred at isolated places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Gangetic West Bengal, Haryana, west Rajasthan, Madhya Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.

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