Monsoon Update: Heavy To Very Heavy Rainfall Forecast In These States Today; Check List Here

Atmospheric conditions are still not favourable for further advance of monsoon into Rajasthan, remaining parts of Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi,

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New Delhi: The monsoon is in full swing with ‘heavy to very heavy rainfall expected in many states on Thursday including Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Konkan and Goa and coastal Karnataka, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD).

According to the Met department, heavy rainfall is expected to take place at isolated places including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Apart from these areas, a thunderstorm with lightning and gusty winds are expected in isolated areas over Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan & Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Telangana and with lightning at isolated places over Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Sikkim, Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura and Gujarat state.

Meanwhile, weather conditions are still not favourable for the monsoon to cover parts of North India, according to the weather department. It also said atmospheric conditions are still not favourable for further advance of monsoon into Rajasthan, remaining parts of Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, according to news agency PTI.

"A cyclonic circulation lies over east Uttar Pradesh and neighbourhood and there is also a western disturbance," IMD said. These conditions are not favourable for the advance of monsoon, IMD Director General M Mohapatra said. "Large-scale atmospheric conditions are not favourable for further advance of monsoon into Rajasthan, remaining parts of Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi," the IMD said.

However, there could be slow progress of monsoon into some more parts of Uttar Pradesh during the next five days in association with the existing cyclonic circulation over east Uttar Pradesh, the IMD added. Under the regional predictions, the Met department has forecasted thunderstorm and dust storm with gusty winds in west Rajasthan.

The weather department also predicted squally weather over North and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal along and off Odisha-West Bengal coasts, west-central Bay of Bengal along and off north Andhra Pradesh Coast.

Strong winds with the speed of 45-55 kmph are expected over the southwest, west-central, and adjoining east-central the Arabian Sea. Fishermen are advised not to venture into these areas.