Heavy rainfall likely in South, Northeast India till Saturday
New Delhi: As the monsoon trough continues to run along the foothills of the Himalayas, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall over Northeast India and the extreme Southern Peninsular region. However, this may not make a significant improvement as far as rainfall distribution is concerned, meteorologists said.
Heavy isolated rainfall is likely over Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday; in Assam and Meghalaya from Thursday to Saturday and over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura for the next five days. On precipitation in East India for the next five days, the weather office expects light to moderate widespread rainfall or thunderstorm and lightning with isolated heavy rainfall over sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on Wednesday and Thursday, and over Odisha on Saturday.
Light or moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds of 30-40 kmph reaching up to 50 kmph may cover Andaman & Nicobar Islands from Tuesday to Saturday. “Although rainfall is expected in East and Northeast India for the remaining three days of the month, it may not make up the gap significantly.
August spatial distribution in East and Northeast India is expected to close with 6% excessive precipitation," said Vineet Kumar Singh, a research scientist at Typhoon Research Centre of Jeju National University in South Korea and a former India Meteorological Department scientist. During 1-29 August, rainfall in East and Northeast India was 8% higher than the benchmark long period average (LPA), squeezing the deficiency gap to 16% from 1 June to 29 August.
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