The state of Maharashtra has finally experienced some relief from soaring mercury levels. All thanks to the light to moderate rains that occurred at most places of the state during the last day. These rains helped in dipping the rising mercury levels, thereby leading to the abatement of heatwave conditions from the state.
The temperatures that were running beyond the 45-degree mark, in fact, close to 47 degrees Celsius in a few parts of Vidarbha, reduced to settle under the 45-degree mark.
Skymet Weather had already forecast some scattered light to moderate rains for the region which stood true. In the last 24 hours, from 08:30 am on Thursday, Jeur recorded the most, 40 mm of rains, followed by Sangli with 18 mm of rains, Nagpur 11.5 mm, Udgir 6 mm, Wardha 4 mm, Chandrapur 2 mm, Parbhani 2 mm, Solapur 1 mm, Ratnagiri 0.2 mm, and Mumbai recorded some traces of rains.
As per Skymet Weather, a trough is extending from North Rajasthan to Vidarbha. In the wake of this, rains occurred over these regions.
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Moreover, as the trough is likely to persist, we expect rains to continue in parts of Vidarbha, Marathwada, South Madhya Maharashtra and South Konkan divisions for the next 24 hours. These rains are expected in parts of Nagpur, Akola, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Ratnagiri, Chandrapur, Kolhapur and Udgir.
Rains are also expected to continue in parts of North Madhya Maharashtra and North Konkan in the upcoming 24 hours as well. Hence, Pune and Mumbai also stand a chance to receive light rains.
At this stage, let us see the impact of this weather on the agriculture belt of Maharashtra:
In view of rains, farmers are advised to postpone irrigation for all crops, remove weeds, stubbles, and roots etc. from the field. Before mrig bahar in citrus and Pomegranate, farmers are recommended to remove dried and infected branches of the plants.
Farmers should also apply chemical fertilizer as well as FYM as soon as the initiation of rainfall. Irrigation management should be done in sapota orchard. For cultivation of tomato crop, a deep ploughing with soil-inverting plough followed by two or three harrowing.
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