With a lag of one week, Monsoon has finally arrived over the northeastern states of India including Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim. Although moderate to heavy showers were already prevailing over most parts of the northeastern states along with a few pockets of West Bengal for last several days.
Dhubri in Assam has recorded extremely heavy rainfall of 185 mm during the last 24 hours from 8:30 am on Tuesday. The district has already been recording light to moderate rainy spells from last 3 days. Many parts of Sub Himalayan West Bengal has also received moderate to heavy showers.
Other pockets of the Sub Himalayan West Bengal that has experienced good rainy spells include Darjeeling that experienced 48 mm of showers, Coochbehar 44 mm and Jalpaiguri 7 mm.
Few pockets of Kolkata have also witnessed good showers along with Midnapore that recorded 44 mm rainfall, Digha 13.2 mm and Shanti Niketan and Asansol recorded 24 mm and 21 mm, respectively.
According to Skymet Weather, the change in this weather can be attributed to a cyclonic circulation marked over the northern parts of Bihar and adjoining Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim. A trough is also extending from this system up to North Bay of Bengal.
Due to these heavy showers, a dip in the maximum temperatures of these regions is also seen. Most parts of West Bengal have mercury settling below 35°C, paving way to pleasant weather conditions.
Hence it can be concluded that the intensity of rains will increase over entire West Bengal and parts of Bihar, Sikkim, and Northeastern states during next 24 hours. Though, Kolkata has already missed its Monsoon date but conditions are still favorable for Monsoon to reach Kolkata and may cover some parts of East Bihar also during the next 48 hours.
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