Depression over Bay of Bengal, likely to intensify during next 24 hours: IMD
New
Delhi,
Oct
12:
The
southwest
monsoon
is
very
likely
to
move
west-northwestwards
and
cross
north
Andhra
Pradesh
coast
between
Narsapur
&
Vishakhapatnam
tonight,
the
India
Meteorological
Department
said.
Due
to
which
it
is
unlikely
to
withdraw
from
the
rest
of
the
country
until
next
week,
further
extending
the
rainfall
season.
The ongoing depression over the Bay of Bengal --- a cyclonic circulation --- is likely to intensify into a deep depression during the next 24 hours and cross north Andhra Pradesh coast between Narsapur and Vishakhapatnam during the night of October 12.
IMD says monsoon likely to withdraw from parts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh in next 24 hours
Besides Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the system will also bring rains over Telangana, north interior Karnataka, central Maharashtra and Vidarbha, and south Odisha on October 13.
"There are very little chances of further withdrawal of the southwest monsoon until next week due to the ongoing depression," IMD director general Mrutunjay Mohapatra said.
The first week of October also saw formation of one low pressure area. The official rainfall season in the country is from June 1 to September 30. This season, the country received above normal rainfall for the second consecutive year. The normal withdrawal date of monsoon from west Rajasthan is September 17. However, this year the monsoon retreated from parts of west Rajasthan and Punjab on September 28, 11 days after its normal withdrawal date.
The monsoon usually withdraws from large parts of Karnataka and Telangana and parts of Andhra Pradesh by October 15. It also marks the commencement of northeast monsoon which brings rains over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. By the first week of October, the monsoon had withdrawn from several parts of north India, parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
"The withdrawal line of the southwest monsoon continues to pass through Faizabad, Fatehpur, Nowgong, Rajgarh, Ratlam, Vallabh Vidyanagar and Porbandar," the IMD's bulletin said on Sunday.
The withdrawal of monsoon from the country was delayed even last year. "There has been a trend that the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon is getting delayed. Also, after the monsoon hits Kerala, it has been observed that its progress over north India has slowed," M Rajeevan, secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences said.
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