New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that the southwest monsoon is advancing in many areas of North India and is likely to hit the capital today. According to the department, the monsoon will cover parts of west Rajasthan, east Rajasthan, eastern parts of Haryana, Delhi, entire UP, most parts of Punjab and some parts of Haryana.


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“The Northern limit of monsoon passes through Nagaur, Alwar, Delhi, Karnal, and Ferozepur,” said Dr Kuldeep Srivastava, Regional Weather forecasting Centre, New Delhi in a tweet by ANI.

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The weather department has earlier announced that the monsoon will hit the capital on June 25, Thursday. The advancement of the monsoon according to the weather bureau is also influenced by a cyclonic circulation developing over north interior Odisha and the neighbouring areas. This is having strengthened the easterly wind and feeding of high moisture from the Bay of Bengal over North India. This condition had helped the monsoon to advance to Madhya Pradesh, UP, and Uttarakhand.

Experts say that the condition might be helping in bringing the monsoon earlier than usual to Delhi which usually sees the first signs of rain around June 27. Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan also saw the onset of rains on June 24.

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About conditions in Eastern India, the IMD has said that there will be widespread rainfall varying from heavy to very heavy rainfall in some areas. It is likely to continue over the northeast and adjoining east India during the next 5 days.

There will also be isolated extremely heavy rain likely over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during June 25-26 June and over Assam & Meghalaya during June 25-27.

The IMD had earlier stated that India will receive normal monsoon from June to September. According to the forecast, the Southwest monsoon hit Kerala on June 1. It proceeded to cover Maharashtra by June 12.