Monsoon rains likely to increase over central India and Gujarat

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Monsoon rains are expected to increase gradually over east coast and central India during the next few days. A low pressure area is likely to develop in the Bay of Bengal close to Orissa and Andhra Pradesh coast during the next 24 to 48 hours. The weather system will boost rainfall activities first over Orissa and north coastal Andhra Pradesh and then over Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha, Madhya Pradesh during the next four to five days.

Another weather system as a cyclonic circulation lies over Gujarat coast near the Arabian Sea. It is predicted that the system from the Bay of Bengal will finally connect with this system thereby bringing bountiful rain over Gujarat 16th of June onwards.

Monsoon rain will continue to occur in east India at many places over Gangetic West Bengal and Jharkhand. Some areas of Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim will also receive monsoon showers. Many places in central India over Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha will receive showers during the next two days.

Most of the places along the West coast will receive moderate to heavy rainfall during the next two days. Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka and south Gujarat will also witness heavy to very heavy downpour at one or two places during the period. The seasonal off shore corridor runs from Kerala to Gujarat coast.

The Northern Limit of Monsoon (NLM) has shifted a little northward and now passes through Okha, Ahmedabad, Rajgarh, Satna, Ranchi, Behrampur, Jalpaiguri and Gangtok. The NLM indicates leading edge of the monsoon system below which monsoon rainfall activities take place.