The west coast of peninsular India right from south Gujarat to Kerala will continue to receive Monsoon rain with good showers over Konkan, Goa and Karnataka. But the intensity of rain will remain less over north coastal Maharashtra including Ratnagiri and south coastal Gujarat for the next 2 days.
Telangana, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and east Uttar Pradesh have been receiving good showers since the last 24 hours and will continue for next 2 to 3 days.
Rain in Karnataka
In a span of 24 hours from 8.30 am on Wednesday Agumbe received 80.4 mm of rain, Karwar 50 mm, Mangalore 12 mm, Honnavar 18 mm and Madikeri 19 mm. Panaji in Goa received 25 mm of rain.
In Kerala only few stations including Kannur (51 mm) received good showers.
Rain in Maharashtra
Wardha received 46.4 mm, Harnai 36 mm, Mahabaleshwar and Nagpur 15 mm, Mumbai 7 mm and Ratnagiri 6 mm.
Southwest Monsoon is likely to cover some more parts of Maharashtra within 48 hours and according to the latest weather update by Skymet Meteorology Division in India, Southwest Monsoon has already covered West Bengal, parts of Jharkhand and Bihar and some parts of Odisha and Telangana.
In West Bengal, Asansol received 30 mm, Coochbehar 18 mm, Digha 60 mm, Kolkata 39 mm, Krishnangar 48 mm and Srineketan 42 mm of rain. Jamshedpur in Jharkhand received 105 mm of rain.
Rain in South India picked up considerably from the 11th of June but this increase in rain still hasn't been able to make up for the deficit in South India.
Deficiency in the National Cumulative Average monsoon rain, from the 1st to the 18th of June stands at a whopping 45%. On a whole South India is facing a rain deficit of about 27% while the deficiency was 24% till the 14th June. Deficiency over coastal Karnataka has reduced to about 32% now.
Southwest Monsoon continues to bring good showers but the deficiency seems to be overriding as the west coast of South India receives very heavy showers, especially in the initial phase of Southwest Monsoon. But interior parts of peninsular India is not receiving enough rain.
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