Tag: Monsoon

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.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday informed that the onset of the southwest monsoon over Kerala is likely to get slightly delayed than the normal date of arrival.

As a part of the exercise to contain the spread of the diseases, Odisha Public Health Director today reviewed the situation in three Malaria and Diarrhoea-prone districts namely, Koraput, Malkangiri and Nabarangpur. 

The South-West monsoon has finally withdrawn from Odisha.Bhubaneswar Met Centre informed the same through its Twitter handle.The monsoon is also likely to withdraw from the remaining parts of Chhattisgarh and North Bay of Bengal, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh in next two days.

According to the IMD, conditions are likely to become favourable for the withdrawal of monsoon from the next week.