Monsoon advances into seven states six days ahead of schedule, says weather department

The southwest monsoon has advanced into parts of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday.

This has happened six days ahead of schedule, the Hindustan Times reported.

“Conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon into some more parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, remaining parts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha, entire West Bengal and Jharkhand and some parts of Bihar and east Uttar Pradesh and remaining parts of north Bay of Bengal during next 48 hours,” the weather department wrote on Twitter on Thursday afternoon.

Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the Regional Weather Forecasting Centre in Delhi, told the Hindustan Times that monsoon is also expected to arrive in the Capital early. It usually arrives in Delhi by the end of June.

Srivastava added that certain conditions will have to be met before the weather department can announce the onset of monsoon in the Capital.

“It should have rained in a large area for a couple of days, the easterly wind pattern should be established, and it should have covered Bihar, parts of Uttar Pradesh, etc,” he told the Hindustan Times.

The rain is expected to lower the temperature in Delhi. The Capital’s maximum temperature had crossed 40 degrees Celsius on Monday.

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