Heavy Rains to lash Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra and Gujarat Region
Conditions are favourable for the southwest monsoon to depart from additional areas of the Northwest and neighbouring West India over the course of the next two days. • While this is happening, two cyclonic circulations—one over Telangana and the other over the West-Central Bay of Bengal off the coast of Andhra Pradesh—could bring light to moderate widespread to widespread showers with thunderstorms, lightning, and isolated heavy falls to Odisha in next 2-3 days and Jharkhand in the end of the month. • Farmers in Odisha are advised to prepare the field for sowing of linseed. Complete the ploughing and harrowing process in the field. • Up to moderate, widely distributed to widespread rains with heavy rainfall may hit Tamil Nadu, coastal Andhra Pradesh, coastal Karnataka and Kerala, interior Karnataka for next 4-5 days and interior Karnataka from September 29. • A trough extending from East Vidarbha to the South Konkan coast may bring light to moderate widely distributed to widespread rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and isolated heavy rains over the Konkan, Goa, and Madhya Maharashtra regions and Chhattisgarh in next 1-2 days. • Farmers of Maharashtra are advised to keep harvested green gram and black gram at safer places and postpone sowing of rabi sorghum, chickpea and safflower for 2-3 days. • In next 1-2 days, extremely heavy downpours have also been predicted for the Konkan and Goa. • Additionally, around September 29 a new cyclonic circulation is anticipated to develop over the North Andaman Sea and the surrounding area. • Within the next 24 hours, a low-pressure area (LPA) may form over the adjacent East-Central Bay of Bengal and the North Andaman Sea under its influence. After that, it might continue to move west-northwest with the potential for progressive strengthening. • Between September 28 and October 1, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are predicted to see high rainfall activity before it arrives.