The India Meteorological Department has predicted “heavy to very heavy” rainfall over remote areas of east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka, and Kerala on Tuesday as the southwest monsoon approaches and will soon cover nearly all of the nation.
According to the IMD’s forecast, there will also likely be isolated areas of heavy precipitation over Jammu and Kashmir, Leh-Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad (in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir), Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Gujarat.
“Now that the southwest monsoon has swept across the entirety of India, most states are seeing increased rainfall. Monsoon activity has slowed down in some areas of central and northwest India, but it will resume on Tuesday, according to a senior IMD official.
The Met Department has also forecast thunderstorms with lightning at isolated locations over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, along with gusty gusts of up to 40 kph, as well as thunderstorms with lightning at isolated locations over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
