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Monsoon likely to hit Delhi over this weekend

P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI: There is some good news for Delhiites. The monsoon could be round the corner. The India Meteorological Department on Tuesday announced that the system was likely to arrive over the capital by the weekend.

A spokesperson of the IMD said the conditions were becoming favourable for the onset over Delhi following the formation of a low pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast on Tuesday.

Current meteorological analysis and various numerical weather prediction models suggest that the system was likely to concentrate into a depression by Wednesday, cross the Orissa coast on June 29 and move in a west-north-westerly direction, bringing the monsoon to Delhi by the weekend.

Before reaching Delhi, the system would lead to enhanced rainfall over north Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Chhattisgarh from Wednesday to June 30, and subsequently over Vidarbha, Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan and Goa, Gujarat and adjoining south Rajasthan for two to three days.

An IMD release warned that some parts of north Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Chhattisgarh could experience heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next three to four days.

In a few places, there could even be extremely heavy falls, with the quantum of precipitation crossing 25 cm over a period of 24 hours.

The normal date for arrival of monsoon over Delhi is June 29. But, invariably, it has arrived beyond the normal date.

As per the records available with IMD since 1900, the monsoon has arrived on the dot on six occasions only.

It arrived late on 63 occasions, and earlier than the normal date on 37 occasions.

The IMD spokesperson said the monsoon had, meanwhile, advanced further into some more parts of East Uttar Pradesh, remaining parts of Uttarakhand, the entire Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and the northern parts of West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.

On Tuesday, the northern limit of the monsoon passed through Hoshangabad, Varanasi, Lucknow, Bareilly, Ambala and Amristar.

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