Parts of northern India will have to wait a little longer for the monsoons as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted on Monday that its progress could slow due to the approaching westerly winds.
The IMD had predicted that the southwest monsoon was expected to reach the state capital by June 15. However, under the current circumstances, this is unlikely, said IMD director general Mrutunjay Mohapatra.
The Northern Limit of Monsoon (NLM) continues to run through Diu, Surat, Nandurbar, Bhopal, Nowgong, Hamirpur, Barabanki, Bareilly, Saharanpur, Ambala and Amritsar, the IMD announced.
“The southwest monsoon has so far penetrated the entire peninsula (south India), east-central and east and northeast India and some parts of northwest India in connection with active monsoon circulations and the formation of a depression,” the IMD said.
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“However, due to the approaching west winds in mid-latitudes, the rest of the monsoons will likely be slow over the rest of northwest India,” he added.
The progress of the monsoons is continuously monitored and further updates are provided daily, the IMD said.
The southwest monsoon reaches western Rajasthan in the first week of July. The region is also the last outpost in the country to be covered. It reaches northwest Rajasthan late and retires from there early.
The southwest monsoon set in over Kerala on June 3, two days after its normal date. But then it made rapid progress before the normal date and covered many parts of east, west, south and central India.
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On Sunday, the IMD announced that the monsoons had reached Madhya Pradesh, all of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar, most of parts of East Uttar Pradesh, some parts of West Uttar Pradesh, all of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir , Ladakh. Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad, some parts of North Haryana, Chandigarh and North Punjab.
“Conditions are favorable for the southwest monsoon to penetrate further into most parts of Madhya Pradesh; remaining parts east of Uttar Pradesh; Delhi; some parts of West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab during the next 48 hours, ”the IMD said on Sunday.
However, she revised her forecast on Monday.
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