It’s a meteorologist’s delight when a monsoon weather system does one full round, drenching the entire country from the east coast to the west, the north and back to starting point.This is what happened when Pyaar, the Andhra cyclone hit the east coast early this week. In the next few days, after almost travelling the entire breadth of the country, there will now be rain in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.When it first struck as a cyclone, the weather system led to havoc in Andhra Pradesh when over 70 people were killed. Then it travelled westwards, giving rain to entire central India en route. By the third day, Mumbai, Madhya Maharashtra and Konkan and Goa were drenched by what had by then become a low-pressure area. And when it started weakening, the system was bolstered by the western disturbance over Pakistan, moving towards Jammu and Kashmir.Once again, the low pressure travelled northwards and resulted in heavy rain in Uttaranchal, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and eastern Rajasthan.According to the latest forecast, this is going to extend to eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the next two days. Though there might be a dispute as to whether this is the same system or not, the fact that there is no break in the monsoon is a rare phenomenon, say Met experts.With the western disturbance firmly lodged over Jammu and Kashmir, the bad news for Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh is that it will continue to rain heavily for another 24-36 hours. There might be some isolated showers over Punjab and Haryana, too. But when the rain does come to Bihar within 72 hours, it is expected to be very heavy.Meanwhile, a fresh system is building up in the Bay of Bengal from the South China Sea and coastal Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu will see a fresh spate of rainfall in the next few days—the magnitude will be clear as it approaches the Bay of Bengal. This fresh spate is expected to wipe out deficiencies in monsoon rain over the entire country.
