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Monsoon returns with a bang and floods, leaves trails of destruction

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After 23 days, the southwest monsoon returned in full vigour on Monday because it made some progress, although it’s nonetheless to succeed in Delhi. The IMD in its assertion on Monday stated, “Such type of failure by numerical models in prediction of monsoon advance over Delhi is rare and uncommon.”
Very heavy rain (lasting for twenty-four hours until 8.30 am) lashed Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan with a few of these occasions recorded at Murud (348 mm), Dharamshala (AWS) (184 mm), Harnai (164 mm), Parbhani (161 mm), Palampur (155 mm), Jammu metropolis (151 mm), Samba (114 mm), Karwar (106 mm), Ahmedabad and Nainital (76 mm), Jaipur airport (69 mm) and Dehradun (53 mm).
In its newest progress, the monsoon coated most of Rajasthan and Punjab, some components of Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. As a outcome, the Northern Limit of Monsoon (NLM) now passes via Jaisalmer, Nagaur, Bharatpur, Aligarh, Karnal and Ganganagar.
Presently, there are beneficial situations for the monsoon to stay energetic over most components of the nation. These embrace two low strain programs — over north Andhra Pradesh-Odisha coast within the Bay of Bengal and one other over south Gujarat alongside the northeast Arabian Sea. Low strain programs, usually, support good rainfall alongside the trail of their motion.
There can be a trough between the low strain close to Gujarat reducing throughout south Gujarat, north Madhya Maharashtra, south Chhattisgarh and north coastal Andhra Pradesh.
The IMD has stated the monsoon will stay energetic over the nation until July 19.
Lightning and thunderstorms are forecast over Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana until July 16.
The IMD has positioned Konkan, Goa and Madhya Maharashtra on pink alert (take motion) on Tuesday with a risk of very heavy rain.
For the following 5 days, IMD has forecast heavy to very heavy rain (64.5 mm to 204.4 mm in 24 hours) in Gujarat, Telangana, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad, Rajasthan, Assam, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Arunachal Pradesh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Mahe.