Active monsoon conditions likely to continue over Northwest, Central and West India during next three days. Southwest monsoon is likely to advance into remaining parts of the country during next 2-3 days.
The young man and woman can be seen dancing their hearts out on a busy street without being scared and unbothered by the traffic and other commuters.
The residents have ascribed the present water logging situation to the ongoing Box Drain work by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Makarabag area.
As per the IMD, Odisha recorded 21.3 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours which is 139 mm more than the normal rainfall of 8.9 mm. Malkangiri district recorded the highest 51.5 mm of rainfall yesterday.
Southwest monsoon has advanced to most areas of Malkangiri, Koraput and some areas of Gajapati district.
Rain alert warning has been sounded for Puri, Khordha (Bhubaneswar), Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam, Nabarangpur and Kalahandi for three hours.
The IMD predicted that heatwave conditions are likely to continue over East India during the next five days. Similarly, widespread rainfall activity with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over northeast India during next five days.
Keeping the coming rainy season in view, a review meeting was held at the BMC office today. The corporators of 67 wards, officials of the engineering department, R & B department, and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) took part in the meeting.
The southwest monsoon has arrived in Kerala, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Thursday.
Earlier, the IMD had predicted that monsoon would hit Kerala around June 4. However, there has been a delay of some days in the onset. The monsoon onset of Kerala draws much anticipation among people in other parts of the country including Odisha.
The latest weather developments suggest the formation of low pressure over the Southeast Arabian Sea and subsequent intensification into a depression.
As per IMD, the conditions are favourable for further advance of the southwest monsoon into some more parts of the south Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands during the next 24 hours.
“Once the monsoon gets strong, it is likely to arrive in Kerala around June 4, 2023,” said IMD in its updated long-range forecast outlook for the 2023 Southwest monsoon Season (June - September) rainfall and monthly rainfall and temperature for June 2023.
However, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said that Southwest monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall over the country as a whole is most likely to be normal (96 to 104% of Long Period Average (LPA).
As per the IMD, the advancement is mainly due to the persistence of south-westerly winds in the lower tropospheric levels and rainfall activity over the area during the past 24 hours.
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