New Delhi: Monsoon has covered more than 80 percent area of India. The Meteorological Department has predicted moderate to heavy rains in 24 states of the country in the next 24 hours. Monsoon has advanced in states like Gujarat and Punjab. IMD says that there will be monsoon rains in the East, Central, North West and West of India for the next 5 days.
New Delhi: Monsoon has covered more than 80 percent area of India. The Meteorological Department has predicted moderate to heavy rains in 24 states of the country in the next 24 hours. Monsoon has advanced in states like Gujarat and Punjab. IMD says that there will be monsoon rains in the East, Central, North West and West of India for the next 5 days.
During this, heavy rains will be seen in UP, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh. The Meteorological Department has also issued an alert for heavy rains in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa.
The effect of monsoon is also being seen in the capital Delhi. Even today, IMD has predicted cloudy weather and rain here. Apart from this, there will be monsoon rains in the states of South India and the Northeast. The rainy season continues in Assam, due to which the Brahmaputra river has taken a fierce form. There is a flood-like situation in the low-lying areas of the state. Lakhs of people have been affected.
At the same time, the rivers in Himachal Pradesh are also in spate. Tourists have been advised not to visit Himachal for the next few days. Roads are getting jammed due to landslides at various places, erosion is taking place due to the fast flow of water.
IMD has predicted that the effect of monsoon will be at its peak in Uttar Pradesh from June 29. Heavy rains are expected in the entire state till July 1. Light to moderate rain is expected in some parts of the state on July 2 and 3 as well. Today, the Meteorological Department has expressed the hope of normal rains in Western UP.
During the last 24 hours, this part of the state received light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning. IMD has issued an orange alert for heavy rains in 7 districts of Uttarakhand today. The weather agency has predicted heavy rains in Nainital, Champawat, Tehri, Pauri, Dehradun, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh. On one hand, the effect of monsoon is visible in UP, while there is no rain in the neighboring state of Bihar.
In Bihar, the record of 122 years of low rainfall in June may be broken. Now only 2 days are left for the end of June, but only 28.6 mm of rain has been recorded in the state. Data is available with the Meteorological Department since 1901, according to which the lowest rainfall in the month of June in Bihar was 41.1 mm in 1926. However, giving news of relief, the IMD said that rain-friendly conditions are not being created in the state in the next few days.
Monsoon had arrived in Kerala on June 8, but the state has received less rainfall than normal. Due to the monsoon, Kerala has received 65 percent less rainfall so far this year than the normal rainfall during this period. According to the Meteorological Department, there is a possibility of good rains in the state in the coming days.
