Monsoon active, heavy rain over most areas of country this week: IMD

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Konkan, Goa, central Maharashtra and Gujarat will receive heavy rain. A trough running from Gujarat and north Kerala has kept the monsoon active along the west coast for the past few days. During the weekend, Mumbai and suburbs received heavy downpour, crippling the city’s normal life on Monday. The maximum city on Sunday recorded 270 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Over southern peninsular India, coastal Karnataka and Kerala will receive heavy rain till Friday, the IMD said in its forecast. Under the influence of a cyclonic circulation prevailing over west-central Bay of Bengal off the Andhra Pradesh coast, heightened rainfall will affect coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Yanam (Puducherry) and Telangana till Friday.

There is no respite from rain for Assam, where flooding in the past few days has killed over 50 people. Heavy rain is predicted also over Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura till Friday. The eastern states of Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha, too, will receive similar-intensity rain this week.

Thunder and lightning will affect parts of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and some areas along central India this week. Light to moderate rain is forecast over Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, Ladakh-Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad till Friday.

There is a warning for possible heavy rainfall over Uttarakhand and west Uttar Pradesh between Tuesday and Thursday.

With the monsoon continuing to remain active in the past few days, all-India rainfall on Monday was 234.6 mm, which was 2 per cent above normal.