Maharashtra has received good rainfall during entire Southwest Monsoon this year. Last couple of weeks were a miracle for the entire state where most of the regions have witnessed decent downpour.
The cyclonic circulation which yesterday was over north Chhattisgarh now lies over South Chhattisgarh and adjoining Vidarbha region extending up to 3.6 km. In the wake of this weather system, light to moderate rains have blessed parts of the state in last 24 hours.
Rainfall recorded in last 24 hours from 08:30 am on Thursday is as follows: Yeotmal recorded 24.8 mm of rainfall, Amravati 14.6 mm, Nagpur 9.2 mm, Chandrapur 9.1 mm, Pharbani 8.7 mm and Burdhana 8 mm showers,
During the similar time frame, few light spells were also recorded in Gondia which observed 5.4 mm of spells, Kolhapur 2.5 mm, Satara 4.5 mm and Sangli recorded 0.8 mm of wet spells.
As of now, the aforesaid weather system is likely to move further towards west. This would further create possibilities of moderate to heavy rains over some parts of the state particularly over Vidarbha and few isolated parts of Madhya Maharashtra for another 24 hours.
Moreover, light showers can make their appearance over most of the northern region of the state for 24 hours. Thereafter, these rains are likely to intensify gradually.
Not to forget, Southwest Monsoon has played its best over the state of Maharashtra and most of the regions would bid adieu to the same with a rain surplus statistics.
At present, talking about the overall Monsoon stats of the state, Konkan and Goa has been crowned as the best performing region observing a 22% rain surplus, on the other hand, Marathwada stands at 21% rain surplus and Madhya Maharashtra observed 13% more rains than its normal while Monsoon concluded with 8% more rains over the Vidarbha region.
Hence, in a nutshell, it can be concluded that Southwest Monsoon was almost above normal for the entire state.
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