The southwest monsoon has arrived over Kerala and parts of northeastern states, the Indian Meteorological Department announced yesterday, as the southern state received widespread rainfall since Monday.
The monsoon has advanced into some parts of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, the IMD said.
“Widespread rainfall occurred over Kerala during the past two days. A total of 78% monitoring stations for monsoon onset over Kerala have reported rainfall for the last 48 hours,” the weather office said in a statement.
The statement said that conditions were favourable for further advance of the southwest monsoon into remaining parts of south Arabian Sea, Lakshadweep area and Kerala, some parts of central Arabian Sea, coastal and south interior Karnataka, some more parts of Tamil Nadu, southwest, west central and east central Bay of Bengal, most parts of northeast Bay of Bengal and some more parts of north-eastern states during next four days.
IMD official A S Sudevan said though it was sunny in the morning here for a while, there are other indicators that are taken into consideration when announcing the onset of the monsoon.
“In the past two days the rainfall was quite heavy in several districts of the state and it touched 11mm. The forecast for the coming four days indicate good rainfall. It’s a good beginning and indications are that this time Kerala will get a very good monsoon,” Sudevan said.