Heavy rains likely in Maharashtra, Goa & Karnataka; heatwave to continue in some parts: IMD

INDIA Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday said heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over Goa and Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada and Coastal & North Interior Karnataka on June 10 and 11.

It forecast heat wave to severe heat wave conditions likely over Northwest India including Delhi-NCR, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab as well as East India including Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand during the next 5 days.

IMD also said that the Southwest Monsoon has advanced into some more parts of Maharashtra on Monday. Conditions are favourable for further advance of the Southwest Monsoon into some parts of South Gujarat and some more parts of Maharashtra during the next 2 days, it added.

According to IMD, a cyclonic circulation lies over northeast Assam and its neighbourhood which is likely to result in widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds (30-40 kmph) likely over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during next 7 days.

Isolated to scattered light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds (30-40 kmph) is also very likely over Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha during 12th-14th; Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh during the next five days.

IMD also said a cyclonic circulation lies over Marathwada in lower tropospheric levels which is likely to result in:

Fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning & gusty winds (40-50 kmph) is likely over Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Karnataka, Telangana and Kerala; isolated light to moderate rainfall is also likely over Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal during the next 4-5 days.