No Relief From Heatwave In Eastern India Yet As Downpour Continues In Rajasthan, Northeast

Parts of UP, MP, Odisha, Bihar reel under heatwave while parts of Rajasthan and North East receive heavy to very heavy rainfall.

Parts of UP, MP, Odisha, Bihar reel under heatwave while parts of Rajasthan and North East receive heavy to very heavy rainfall.

Source : PTI

The India Meteorological Department on Tuesday said that eastern parts of the country will continue to reel under heatwave conditions till Wednesday. Heatwave likely to continue in some pockets over East Uttar Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, and Yanam and Telangana on June 20, Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh on June 20 and 21, said the weather department on Tuesday. 

The MeT department also predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in various parts of the country. 

“Heavy Rainfall may occur in isolated places over Southwest Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal, Kerala & Mahe, South Interior Karnataka on 20th June. Arunachal Pradesh and West Madhya Pradesh on 21st June. Assam & Meghalaya on 22nd June. Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand on 22 & 23rd June,” it said. 

North Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam during 20 to 22nd June is expected to receive heavy rainfall while Uttarakhand on 20th, 23rd & 24th June; Konkan & Goa, East Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh on 23rd & 24th June; Coastal Karnataka on 24th June.

Whereas Northeast Rajasthan, northwest Madhya Pradesh, and Arunachal Pradesh might receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on Tuesday, Assam and Meghalaya on June 21, and Odisha on June 23 and 24. 

Conditions are favourable for further advance of Southwest Monsoon over some more parts of south Peninsular India, some parts of Odisha, some more parts of Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, and East Uttar Pradesh during the next 2-3 days, the MeT department said. 

The cyclonic circulation over the southwest and adjoining Westcentral Bay of Bengal off the Tamil Nadu coast now lies over the Southwest & adjoining Westcentral Bay of Bengal off the Andhra Pradesh coast between 0.9 km & 5.8 km above mean sea level tilting southwestwards with height, it added.