At present East Rajasthan is the rainiest region of the country with 57% surplus rainfall. West Rajasthan is also among the rainiest areas with 30% surplus rain. During last many days, Rajasthan has been receiving moderate to heavy rain with extremely heavy at isolated places.
Due to these torrential rains, many districts of the state are already witnessing flood like situation like Jodhpur & Bhilwara.
Reason for this heavy rain is the low-pressure area that travelled from Gujarat up to North Rajasthan. Though this low-pressure area had weakened and persisted as a cyclonic circulation over North Rajasthan, yet it was instrumental for fairly widespread rains.
During last 24 hours, East & Central Rajasthan has been receiving good rains: Jaipur 26 mm, Jodhpur 14 mm, Bikaner 10 mm, Churu 7 mm and Udaipur 6 mm.
This weather system is persisting over North Rajasthan and axis of Monsoon trough is also passing through North Rajasthan from Ganganagar to Agra. Therefore, we expect that moderate rain at many places with heavy spells at one or two places will continue for East and North Rajasthan for another 24-48 hours.
Thereafter, rain intensity will decrease but still scattered light to moderate rains will continue over eastern parts of Rajasthan. Weather in West Rajasthan, particularly over Jaisalmer, Barmer and Nagaur, will go dry. Isolated rain may occur over the region, but mostly dry weather will continue to persist over West Rajasthan for the next 4-5 days.
The rain surplus figures are not expected to go down for West Rajasthan and for East Rajasthan the numbers will only go up.
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