Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday said that several states and Union territories will witness heavy rainfall from July 8 onwards under the effect of the south-west monsoon.
IMD informed that strong winds would reach northwestern part of India due to which the southwest monsoon will advance over some regions of western Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi around July 10.
This south-west monsoon condition will bring heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in almost all parts of India, starting from north to north-west and south.
Isolated heavy rainfall is predicted over Uttarakhand region from July 8 onward over Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh from July 9 onwards and over east Rajasthan from July 10 onwards.
Apart from this, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha region and Chhattisgarh in central India will likely to receive scattered to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls from July 8 onwards.
Due to the strengthening of the south-west monsoon over the Arabian Sea, heavy rainfall is expected along the west coast from July 9 onwards.
Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall along with isolated heavy to very heavy falls is likely over the Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Mahe in Puducherry from July 9 onwards.
Thundershowers along with lightening were also witnessed during the same time period in Odisha, east Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, west Rajasthan, and Kerala, among others, as per IMD.
Weather System in North- Eastern Region
As south-west monsoon will be approaching from July 8 onwards, rainfall and its distribution will very likely to reduce over north-eastern Indian states including Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura from July 9 onwards.
