Heavy rain claims 3 lives in Kerala, stays active along the West Coast

Atmospheric features are perfectly aligned with active monsoon conditions in scattered parts of the country, with a westerly disturbance joining the party from Saturday. The interaction of western disturbances with the monsoons is known to cause heavy rains over northwestern and eastern India.

The rain returns to the northwest

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall is likely for northwest India over the next five days. Interaction of western disturbance and monsoon will bring heavy to very heavy rains initially over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on Sunday.

Monsoon help features

Elsewhere, the monsoon trough extends over land from northwestern India to eastern India to south of its normal location on Wednesday, indicating active monsoon conditions. Other supporting features including the eastern and western shear zone of monsoon turbulence over southern India and the marine basin in the Mediterranean from the coast of south Gujarat to the coast of northern Kerala also persisted. Apart from this, the cyclone has been stuck over the north and adjacent central Bay of Bengal, having slid off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.

• Read also: Weather report. The rainfall deficit decreased by 10% in five days as the ‘low’ monsoon began to work

Alert to Konkan, Goa

The IMD predicted more rains in Kerala as three related deaths were reported on Tuesday. Heavy rain is likely with heavy to very heavy precipitation through Friday before winding down. Along the rest of the western coast, widespread precipitation is expected with heavy to very heavy precipitation for Konkan and Goa; Ghat districts in Madhya Maharashtra; and Gujarat over the next five days. Isolated heavy falls may continue in Konkan, Goa and Ghat districts on Thursday; over Gujarat on Friday. and Saurashtra and Kutch both on Friday and Saturday.

• Read also: Weather report. The monsoon may cover the entire country in the next 2-3 days, as early as about a week

Longer wait over the peninsula

As for eastern and northeastern India, it is likely to spread largely to light to moderate rains with isolated heavy waterfalls over the hills of West Bengal, Sikkim, Odisha and Bihar for the next five days and over Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur for three days. All this leaves the rain-deficient parts of peninsular India and neighboring central India waiting even longer for their due date.