New Delhi, Thursday, September 6, The moderate rain is likely to continue over west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and southeast Rajasthan in the next twenty four hours. After this period, the rain belt would shift northwestward over northwest Madhya Pradesh and northwest Rajasthan. The rainfall activities over the Gangetic West Bengal will continue with lesser intensity but would subdue after twenty four hours.
The current rain belt over the west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and southeast Rajasthan is expected to continue during the next twenty four hours. During this period, the low pressure area persisting over these places would move in the northwest direction where it will increase the intensity of the rain over the rest of the parts of Rajasthan, northwest Madhya Pradesh as well as north and northeast Gujarat.
The cyclonic circulation over Gujarat persists and would be responsible for rain over Saurashtra and Kutch in Gujarat and Madhya Maharashtra during the next twenty four hours. Showers could be heavy to very heavy at one or two places over Gujarat.
However, the rain would reduce over the central peninsular areas over Vidarbha and Telangana as the low pressure area under the influence of which showers were taking place has moved away. But, the rain would continue to take place over Chhattisgarh, coastal Orissa, Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal as the divided portion of the erstwhile low pressure area still persists over Chhattisgarh.
During the next twenty four hours, light to moderate rain would continue at many places over Chhattisgarh, coastal Orissa, Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal. Rain is likely to subdue after the next twenty four hours. Rain could be heavy at one or two places over coastal Orissa during this period.
Along the west coast, the rainfall activities would continue over Maharashtra, Konkan, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala during the next twenty four hours. The offshore seasonal trough is strong and active. The trough is extending from Gujarat coast to Kerala coast. Monsoon trough is essentially a region of intensified monsoon winds.
In the northwest plains, light showers are expected at a few places over Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh due to the incursion of moisture from the southeasterly winds originating in the Bay of Bengal. The other branch of the moist winds is reaching up to the northeastern states. Light showers would continue over the northeastern states during the next twenty four hours. In the Southern Peninsula, rain would be subdued. Interior Karnataka, interior Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu can receive light showers at one or two places during the next twenty four hours.
