Heavy rains may lash isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya from May 16-20, and Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura from May 16-19. Fasal advises farmers are drain out excess water from the maize field and clean the weeds which control the disease like rotting and falling off cob, which cause disease in maize field. Heavy rains may occur over parts of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Coastal Andhra Pradesh for several days. In Tamil Nadu nursery land preparation may be done followed by sowing for short duration rice.