Skymet weather

Rainfall to increase over Rajasthan and Maharashtra; Central India to get respite from flooding as rain subdues

New Delhi, Monday, 23 July, After lashing central India for the past four days, monsoon is again looking vigorous, but this time over southwest Rajasthan, northeast Maharashtra and southwest Madhya Pradesh. Four districts of south west Rajasthan, Khargaon, Barwani, Dhar and Jhabua are likely to be affected by heavy showers while three districts of northeast Maharashtra, Dhule, Nandurbar and Jalgaon would also get heavy showers in the next twenty four hours.

The current downpour scenario over these two areas has evolved after the low pressure showed up over the Bay of Bengal and entered the sub-continent from the east coast a few days ago. It has now moved to position itself over southwest Madhya Pradesh. Initially, it was predicted to move westwards but strong southwesterly winds are taking it a little north towards east Rajasthan, north Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Uttar Pradesh, giving a boost to rainfall activity here.

Central India, which is currently witnessing increased rainfall activity and flood like situation in Vidarbha and Telangana, is likely to find respite as rainfall intensity is expected to decrease as the low over south Chhattisgarh has moved on.

The southwesterly winds are strong and pushing the monsoon trough northwards to encourage rainfall activity over Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.

The western part of monsoon trough is shifting northwards and is likely to be positioned over north of Delhi to bring rain in the capital from 24th evening onwards.

Due to this shift of monsoon trough, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh would also see increased rainfall in the next twenty four to forty eight hours. Rain, heavy at many places and very heavy at a few places in Uttarakhand, is expected after twenty four hours.

Monsoon trough is essentially a region of intensified moisture laden monsoon winds.

Temperatures are rising over the northwest plains. Temperatures are up by one or two degree Celsius above normal. In western Rajasthan, where dry weather is prevailing, temperatures remain in the forties. Prevailing dry weather conditions under the influence of dry westerly winds are causing the temperature rise.

Moist southwesterly winds gushing in by tomorrow evening may reverse the trend.

Along the west coast, the off shore trough extends from Konkan to Kerala coast and is weak. The coast is experiencing moderate rain, which is likely to continue in the next twenty four hours. Rainfall intensity may increase after this due to spike in moisture laden southwesterly winds.

In southern Peninsula, rainfall is not significant though. Scanty rain is possible over Tamil Nadu and interior Karnataka.

Plant a tree this monsoon

Delhi, Friday, 20 July, Monsoon is the season of sowing in India because freshly showered farms make it easier to sow crops that feed us throughout the year. But, do people in urban areas grow anything to make the season of rain fruitful other than to enjoy it? Do they ever think to better the surroundings that contain polluted air that they breathe throughout the year? So, what should we be doing during the monsoon season? We should plant a tree or grass or ivy.

This becomes imperative because air in urban streets are so polluted that we sometimes find it hard to breathe. A recent study concluded that tree, grass or climbing ivy can reduce the concentration of Nitrogen oxide on our street as much as by 40 percent more than what believed previously. In simple terms, trees clean the air five times better than what we thought or concluded earlier.

Monsoon provides us the best opportunity to plant a tree because during this period, we need not put extra effort while digging the soil as it remains soft due to rain. Also, we do not need to water the tree frequently as rain water feeds them properly at least for a few months.

So planting tree, grass or ivy during monsoon can better the air we breath and that is not for a year or two, but for entire life and even for the next generation too.

Monsoon's greatest hope this year emerges in the Bay of Bengal; central India likely to be lashed by heavy rain

New Delhi, Friday,  20 July, The biggest hit of monsoon has arrived along the east coast as a low pressure zone over Bay of Bengal. Southeasterly winds will steer this low into central India and dispense rainfall here. The moisture laden southeasterly winds will then advance towards north Telangana, south Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha and east Madhya Pradesh.  Moderate to heavy rain is expected at these places during the next forty eight hours. Heavy to very heavy rain at a few places over these areas cannot be ruled out.

The southeasterly winds are then predicted to move westwards and likely to cover south east Rajasthan and Gujarat after about forty eight hours. Light to moderate rainfall is expected over these areas.

The monsoon trough that currently lies near the foothills of Himalayas is likely to shift downward and pass Delhi. This will bring passing showers over Delhi tonight.

Monsoon trough is essentially a region of intensified moisture laden monsoon winds.

Current dry spell over northwest plains is likely to ebb for the next four to five days as the monsoon trough has left the foothills of Himalayas and is likely to move into northwest plains. Rainfall of varying intensity is expected over Punjab, Haryana and in some parts of northeast Rajasthan. This phase of rainfall over northwest plains is predicted to continue for the next four to five days.

East and northeast India, which were experiencing good phase of rain for the past one week is expected to receive less rain. The erstwhile cyclonic circulation over east Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has moved westward to northeast Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Uttar Pradesh taking rainfall away from east. Rainfall is expected to increase over Allahabad region now.

Rainfall along the west coast is likely to be subdued as the offshore trough (intensified monsoon winds) has turned weak. Though, moderate rainfall is likely to continue along the coast due to the presence of moisture laden southwesterly winds.

Attack dehydration to remain fit during hot and humid season

New Delhi, Thursday, July 19 Dehydration is the main cause behind most of the sicknesses that grips human body during summer and monsoon season. Such sicknesses happens due to the lack of fluid or water in our body as we lose them in hot and humid conditions. So, it becomes imperative to attack the root cause of such sicknesses and that is Dehydration. But, before that we have to identify what sorts of dehydration is taking place in our body. Is it mild, moderate or severe?

To identify them, we have to watch out for following symptoms of dehydration:

Dehydration is the main cause behind most of the sicknesses that grips human body during summer and monsoon season. Such sicknesses happens due to the lack of fluid or water in our body as we lose them in hot and humid conditions. So, it becomes imperative to attack the root cause of such sicknesses and that is Dehydration. But, before that we have to identify what sorts of dehydration is taking place in our body. Is it mild, moderate or severe?

To identify them, we have to watch out for following symptoms of dehydration:

  • Dry mouth: if our mouth is becoming dry or sticky
  • Low Blood Pressure, headaches and dizziness: this can happen due to lower level of water in our blood.
  • Muscle fatigue: Cramps
  • Dry and cool skin: our skin becomes first casualty of dehydration as it dried up to fill the gap created by lost fluid.
  • Thirst
  • Feeling lethargic and irritable
  • Lack of Urine: If the urine stops for more than 12 hours or there’s only a very small amount of dark yellow urine

If these symptoms are occurring in your body and you keep neglecting them you can be seriously sick

So, how to avoid such situation? Here are few tips:

  • Drink plenty of fluids every day: 1.5 liters per day is a good rule of thumb, for every hour of strenuous activity or exercise drink one additional liter of water
  • Drink sports drink: sports carry electrolytes and sodium which are essential to replace after intense workouts or activities
  • Eat food rich in salt: low water in body leads to low salt so along with fluid also take salt foods

Dry mouth: if our mouth is becoming dry or sticky

Low Blood Pressure, headaches and dizziness: this can happen due to lower level of water in our blood.

Muscle fatigue: Cramps

Dry and cool skin: our skin becomes first casualty of dehydration as it dried up to fill the gap created by lost fluid.

Thirst

Feeling lethargic and irritable

  • Lack of Urine: If the urine stops for more than 12 hours or there’s only a very small amount of dark yellow urine

If these symptoms are occurring in your body and you keep neglecting them you can be seriously sick

So, how to avoid such situation? Here are few tips:

  • Drink plenty of fluids every day: 1.5 liters per day is a good rule of thumb, for every hour of strenuous activity or exercise drink one additional liter of water
  • Drink sports drink: sports carry electrolytes and sodium which are essential to replace after intense workouts or activities
  • Eat food rich in salt: low water in body leads to low salt so along with fluid also take salt foods

 

Rain likely to begin in Delhi Friday night onwards; monsoon revival is expected over central India

New Delhi, Thursday, 19 July, Delhi and adjoining areas are expected to receive rain starting Friday night. This spell of rain is likely to continue for the next two to three days. Monsoon over central India is likely to revive in the next twenty four to forty eight hours. Rainfall over Mumbai is expected to continue tonight, while activity would subdue tomorrow.

The western end of the monsoon trough presently lies along the foothills of Himalayas and is expected to get active after the next twenty four hours and bring rain over Delhi and in northern parts of Madhya Pradesh. This spell of showers is likely to sustain for the next two to three days.

Monsoon trough is essentially intensified moisture laden monsoon winds.

Troughs are places where winds from opposing directions meet (or winds turn) and atmospheric pressure is low while the turbulence caused by such interaction (or turning) leads to rain, thundershowers and storms. Southwesterly winds are turning into northwesterly along this trough.

Northwest plains of Punjab and Haryana would also get appreciable rainfall due to the mixing of moisture from the Western Disturbance with the monsoon trough.

Thick clouds are being observed over east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and northeastern states. A cyclonic circulation exists over east Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. This will usher in rainfall in east UP, Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim Assam and Meghalaya.

Northern areas of West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya and Bihar are expected to receive heavy rain at a few places during the next 48 hours.

Thunder showers or rain is possible at a few places over sub-Himalayan and Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar and northeastern states.

This circulation is expected to mix up with the western part of the monsoon trough during the next thirty six to forty eight hours. It would to bring rain in central parts of Uttar Pradesh in Kanpur, Lucknow and Allahabad.

The eastern extension of the monsoon trough is passing through east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

A circulation exists over north Bay of Bengal and is likely to intensify after forty eight to seventy two hours.

Mix up of the southward moving monsoon trough with the circulation over north Bay of Bengal is expected in the next thirty six to forty eight hours. This will bring rain over Orissa, coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and south Chattishgarh.

Moisture laden southeasterly winds will then reach up to Vidarbha, north Telengana, south Madhya Pradesh in the next forty eight hours. Heavy rainfall is likely to lash these places after two to three days. Rain over these areas is likely to sustain for next three to four days.

The active offshore trough from Konkan to Goa coast is delivering rain in the coastal areas of west coast. Moderate rain is likely to continue in the coastal areas. Heavy rain at a few places over Goa Karnataka is expected in the next twenty four hours.

 

Moderate intensity earthquake rocks Afghan-Tajik border; tremors felt in Islamabad, Abbottabad

New Delhi, Thursday,  July 19  A moderate intensity earthquake rocked Afghanistan at around 1:06 local time today afternoon. The earthquake reported to be 5.8 on the Richter scale initially has been scaled down to 5.5 by the USGS in its latest reports.

The earthquake occurred in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan near the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border while the epicenter was 29 km and 65 km from Khorugh (southwest) and Ishkashim (north-northwest) in Tajikistan and 65 km and 68 km from Jarm (northeast) and Ashkasham (north-northwest) in Afghanistan.

Notably, the region is highly hazard prone for earthquakes and witnesses 2-3 earthquakes each year surpassing the magnitude of 5.

There are reports of the jolts of the earthquake being felt in northwest Pakistan that is very close to the region. The tremors were felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, FATA, Sawat, Abbottabad and surrounding areas in Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan.

There are however no reports of loss of life or property yet though the affected region is a little isolated and news might take time to reach out.

Stay away from snacks during rainy-season

New Delhi, Wednesday, July 18, Our mouth starts watering whenever we come across stalls of snacks such as Samosas, Pakodas or pani-puri, but when monsoon becomes active it is advisable to stay away from such snacks. Reason, everything cooked outside whether in a restaurant, hotel or at snacks stalls, tends to use water that might be contaminated. Shopkeepers usually do not care about your health and went on to use this water to cook snacks.

They do not bother to use boiled or clean water to wash the vegetables that are homes to disease carrying mosquitoes and several insects as this is the best season for them to lay eggs on the leaves or bodies of vegetables.

Snacks like pakodas made of these vegetables and leaves can leave you sick.

Oily snacks should also be avoided as our digestion system becomes weak due to excessive sweating or dehydration during the hot and humid monsoon months. In such situation, oily snacks can leave your stomach affected with infections.

So, why take a risk and damage your health? Say, goodbye to these oily snacks till winter arrives.

Monsoon to revive in northwest and central India by weekend; west coast continue to get the most

New Delhi, Wednesday, 18 July, Northwest India is expected to get some relief from rising temperature as monsoon has been predicted to revive during the weekend. Sowing activity is also likely to pick up as rain in northwest plains and central India is expected to continue for at least a week starting this weekend.

The possibility of formation of a cyclonic circulation over northwest Bay of Bengal will send moisture laden southeasterly winds in to central and northwest India as a harbinger of rain in a region deprived of good rain this year.

The monsoon trough presently lies along the foothills of the Himalayas while the eastern end of trough would dip into head Bay of Bengal in the coming two to three days.

The monsoon trough would dispense rainfall over Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal during this period as it shifts southwards gradually. Bihar, Jharkhand, sub-Himalayan west Bengal, Orissa and northeast states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh would continue to receive rain in the next twenty four hours.

The Tarai region of Uttar Pradesh and adjoining Uttarakhand too is expected to receive rainfall in the next twenty four hours.

Rainfall activity continues along the west coast. Several areas have received abundant rain in the last twenty four hour. Mumbai received 57 mm of rain yesterday and rainfall here is likely to continue during the next twenty four hours.

The off shore trough extending from Konkan to Kerala is robust and responsible for heavy showers in Goa and Karnataka.

Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and interior Karnataka are likely to receive rainfall in south Peninsula. Visakhapatnam, Godavari, Khammam and Warangal districts in Andhra Pradesh, Chennai and adjacent areas and interior parts of Karnataka are expected to acquire light or isolated moderate showers in the next twenty four hours.

Moisture laden southwesterly winds from Arabian Sea and southeasterly winds from Bay of Bengal would sustain light seasonal showers over south Peninsula, central India and east and northeast India.

 

More rain in store for Mumbai during the next two days

New Delhi, Wednesday, 18 July, Mumbai received 57 mm of rain in the last twenty four hours and more rain is expected over the commercial capital in the next 48 hours.

Santacruz in Mumbai received 57 mm of rain on Tuesday and again on Wednesday it got 15 mm of rain since morning and rainfall is predicted to intensify through the night.

Vikhroli received 28 mm of rain, while Colaba got 17 mm of rain during the period from Tuesday 8:30 am to Wednesday 8:30 am.

Mumbai city may witness flooded and water logged streets that can create difficulties for city dwellers.

Looking at the prospect of heavy rain and a possible tide, fishermen are advised not to venture into the sea.

Rainfall is likely to increase in Mumbai as the off shore trough is becoming more active. The off shore trough along the west coast is extended from Konkan coast to Kerala coast.

Temperatures continue to rise in rain-deficient northwest plains; rain likely after three days

New Delhi, Tuesday, 17 July, After Pre-monsoon showers, temperature in northwest India had come down a bit, but scarcity of rain in the last few days has once again increased the mercury by two to four degree Celsius in the region.

Delhi witnessing five degrees above the normal temperature

There has been constant rise in temperature in the capital for the last few days with Tuesday recording 39 degree Celsius. It is almost five degree Celsius above the normal temperature of 33.7 degrees. Just after declaration of arrival of the monsoon, temperature was around 35 degrees but it has risen to 39 degrees in just few days.

There have been some isolated Thunder storm/showers in the region, but Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, west Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan are still three days away from moderate or heavy rain. So the trend of rise in temperature is likely to continue in this region during the next two to three days.

Rain likely after seventy-two hours

A cyclonic circulation developing in northwest Bay of Bengal is likely to increase rain in central India and a spill over of moisture laden southeasterly winds may reach northwest plains to give rain after seventy two hours.

Biking in the Monsoon

New Delhi, Monday, July 16, In India, a large number of professionals use motor bikes to go to work. They do it irrespective of weather conditions, may it be winter, summer or the rainy season. Biking in the rain is dangerous and can prove fatal if they do not ride bikes in accordance with wet conditions.

Here are a few tips for bike riders keep safe during the wet season.

Proper Clothing: A good rain-suit, gloves, boots and perhaps a battery heated vest can keep even the most persistent storm from soaking you and hence, getting sick.

Beware of intersections: When riding in wet conditions we must be aware of intersections because oils usually surfaces here as this is the spot where vehicles halt. There is a higher concentration of slick here. The wet condition makes it difficult to identify such spots while riding. So at an intersection the riding speed must be reduced.

Use rear view mirror: Always check the rear view mirror for cars that could slide in from behind.

Double your following distance: So that you're not surprised by cars stopping suddenly in front of you,

Keep your hands relaxed on the handlebar: So you do not lean on the bike any more than necessary,

Chose driest section:  Always choose driest sections of any lane as dryness offers superior traction and mobility.

Riding in the rain can actually teach you how to be a better and more confident rider. But do make sure that you remember these points for your own safety as well as others.

Hot week ahead for northwest plains; more rain likely in Mumbai this week

New Delhi, Monday 16 July, People in northwest India including Delhi will continue to face hot conditions during the week as the temperatures soar. Rain is likely to diminish in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan during the next four to five days as the break of the monsoon like situation set to prevail during this period. Isolated thunder storm activity is also likely to develop over these places. Dry weather is likely to continue over west Rajasthan and Kutch of Gujarat.

The Northern Limit of Monsoon line (NLM) is currently lies in the foothills of Himachal Pradesh. Its eastern extension in northeastern states is likely to turn downward into northwest Bay of Bengal where it might build up into a circulation to increase rainfall afterward.

However, rain with moderate intensity is likely to continue over east Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim as moisture-laden southeasterly winds are colliding into the hills and helping precipitation. Heavy rain is also likely at a few places in these states in the next twenty four hours.

Off shore trough Strengthen along the west coast

Along the west coast, the off shore trough extended from Konkan to Kerala is rejuvenating and thus attracting more showers in coastal areas of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra.

Mumbai is likely to see an increase in rainfall activity after twenty four to forty eight hours.

Troughs are places where winds from opposing directions meet (or winds turn) and atmospheric pressure is low while the turbulence caused by such interaction (or turning) leads to rain, thundershowers and storms. Southwesterly winds are turning into northwesterly along this trough.

In central Peninsula, Orissa, Chhattisgarh along with Vidarbha and adjoining region are expected to get moderate rainfall in the next twenty four hours.

In southern Peninsula, seasonal light showers are expected over interior Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Isolated moderate showers are expected in east coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. A few places in Tamil Nadu including capital Chennai will receive light seasonal drizzles in the next twenty four hours.

 







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