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Southwest Monsoon Seasonal Rains drifting towards Kerala

Posted on: 31/May/2019 9:59:23 AM
Following the conclusion of the ‘Peak of Summer’ Agni Nakshatram, it is expected that the southwest monsoon rainy season will reach the border areas of Kerala-Tamil Nadu States.

The summer this year 2019 has been scorching at the most severe intensity of heat for the last 3 months starting from 1st March.

In an unprecedented trend, there has been an acute shortage of water throughout the country. Especially as the Northeast Monsoon Seasonal Rains failed utterly in Tamil Nadu this year. the people in Tamil Nadu have been facing a severely acute shortage of water! In this situation, the public is waiting ago with eager expectations of the rainfall to start!

In somewhat comforting news for the above public, the climate has been conducive for the onset of the southwest monsoon touching the borders of Tamil Nadu state.

As a conducive environment is set in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and The Pacific Ocean, groups of clouds have started approached the Indian Regions.

The onset of the southwest monsoon rainy season which had already onset on 18th May in Andaman, has been strengthening gradually. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has estimated that this would spread to the northern Andaman areas.

In a similar trend, southwest monsoon winds have started blowing from the Arabian Sea. Cloud groups have started approaching the Kerala State. This, in a week’s time, there are prospects of the onset of the southwest monsoon rainy season  entering Kerala and the borders of Kerala-Tamil Nadu borders.

There are prospects of rain in the western districts in the coming few days. The Weather Centre has informed that that fiery winds would blow in the districts of Virudhunagar, Madurai, Sivagangai, Dindigul, Karur, Trichy, Salem, Namakkal, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Thiruvannamalai, and Thiruvallur.

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