Southwest monsoon expected to onset over Kerala around June 4: IMD

THE INDIA Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday said that the southwest monsoon onset over Kerala is most likely to be on June 4.

“Conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon into Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Lakshadweep, some more parts of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal on June 4,” the India Meteorological Department said.

The normal date for the monsoon onset over Kerala is June 1, with a standard deviation of seven days.

This year, the monsoon onset over the Andaman Sea and neighbouring areas was realised on May 16. Since

then the monsoon has made timely progress.

According to the Meteorological office’s forecast on Tuesday, Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Idukki and