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Light to very light rains are expected in Pune End and surrounding areas, which the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said is a sign of the monsoon advancing. On Thursday, Dr Anupam Kashyapi, chief weather forecaster at IMD, said conditions are ripe for more southwest monsoons advancing over some parts of southern peninsular India, including Maharashtra and other parts of the country.
At present, the northern monsoon boundary passes through Ratnagiri, Raichur, Khammam, Malkanjiri, Paralachimundi, Haldia, Bokaro, Patna and Raxaul. Since it broke out over Kerala on June 4, the monsoon’s progress has been slow. As a very intense cyclonic storm Biparjoy developed over the Arabian Sea, the advance of the monsoon over Maharashtra was delayed. The monsoon reached Ratnagiri from 8 to 10 June, but since then there has been no progress. Large parts of the state including Pune are yet to see any rain.
The dissipation of the pepargui created the conditions for the advancing monsoons. Dr Kashyappi said this advance of the monsoon will see rains covering parts of Maharashtra and remaining parts of Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh in the next two to three days. Pune city and surrounding areas are expected to see light to very light rain over the weekends, IMD said.
The delay in the rains raised concerns for the water supply for Puna as well as for the state. Sunil Chavan, Commissioner for Agriculture, has asked farmers not to do sowing until their districts have recorded 80-100mm of rain. Chavan, in a press release, said the institute officials had talked about reviving the monsoon from next week onwards.
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