July and August are the peaking months for Monsoon in India. However, there hasn’t been much rain during this period. And making matters worse is the fact that Monsoon has been on a break for almost a week now.
What is Break Monsoon
During break Monsoon rainfall goes missing for days from the core zone of North and Central India. Rainfall largely becomes confined to the foothills of the Himalayas extending up to Northeast India, which is why we have seen some good spells of rain in Northeast and the foothills of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in last few days.
In a span of 24 hours the Monsoon conditions have not changed in the country with rainfall shrinking further. While there have been some pockets in west coast and Sub Himalayan West Bengal where rainfall has been recorded over 100 mm, (Honavar 129 mm, Jalpaiguri 110 mm) other parts of the country have largely been dry.
The states of Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Tamil Nadu, that amount to half of the total area of the country have become nearly dry.
Northwest is the worst hit and the deficit is only expected to increase in the coming days. In fact the hilly regions are also observing very dry weather. However there can be some isolated rain in the region in the next two days.
A system is building in the Bay of Bengal which is likely to give rain from the 27th across Odisha, Chhattisgarh, north coastal Andhra Pradesh going across Telangana, Rayalaseema, North Interior Karnataka across Maharashtra and Konkan and Goa coast in the next 2-3 days.
The proximity of this system may pull down the western end of the Monsoon trough resulting in some showers in Northwest India on the 28th and 29th of August.
Picture courtesy: thehindu.com
