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Several states likely to receive heavy rainfall in next few days: IMD
Isolated extremely heavy falls are likely to occur over Gangetic West Bengal on Thursday, over Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh on July 30 and over Chhattisgarh and over East Madhya Pradesh on July 31.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that several states across the nation are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall during the next few days due to a low-pressure area over south Bangladesh and adjoining North Bay of Bengal and West Bengal. It is likely to move westwards across West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar during next 48 hours, the MeT department said.
“The western end of the Monsoon trough at mean sea level passes through north of its normal position while its western end passes along normal position. An off-shore trough runs from south Gujarat coast to north Kerala coast. A cyclonic circulation lies over north Pakistan & adjoining Punjab in the lower levels. A line of convergence runs from the above cyclonic circulation over north Pakistan and adjoining Punjab to south Gujarat across West Rajasthan at 3.1 km above mean sea level,” the IMD said in its forecast on Wednesday.
It said that the current spell of widespread rain with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh till July 30.
The weather department added that fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur over Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Bihar till July 30 and over East Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh till July 31.
Isolated extremely heavy falls are likely to occur over Gangetic West Bengal on Thursday, over Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh on July 30 and over Chhattisgarh and over East Madhya Pradesh on July 31.
The IMD said that widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over East Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh till August 1, adding that it is likely to increase from July 30.
The MeT department has said that isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely to occur over West Madhya Pradesh on August 1. “Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy falls very likely over Konkan andGoa, Ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra till August 1,” it added.
