Wednesday, September 02, 2009:

Monsoon watch:

The upper air cyclonic circulation over west central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal extending upto mid-tropospheric level persists tilting southwestwards with height.

The western disturbance as an upper air cyclonic circulation over Punjab and neighbourhood persists and extends upto 3.1 km above mean sea level.

The axis of monsoon trough passes through Anoopgarh, Alwar, Nowgong, Pendra, Bhubaneshwar and thence southeastward to eastcentral Bay of Bengal.

A fresh low pressure area is likely to form over west central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal around 4th.

Chief amounts of rainfall (= 2 cm) occurred (between 0830 to 1730 hours IST of today) are: Bulsar-7, Allahabad-5, Vishakhapatnam-3, Shirali, Varanasi, Jharsuguda, Nizamabad and Dharmshala-2 each.

Main Features:

Fairly widespread rainfall activity with isolated heavy to very heavy falls is likely along west coast and parts of peninsular India during next 2-3 days.

Scattered to fairly widespread rainfall activity is likely over parts of northwest India till tomorrow and may increase in intensity thereafter.

KALPANA 1 Cloud Imagery at 1730 hours IST shows convective clouds over east Arabian Sea, central Bay of Bengal, north Andaman Sea, parts of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Low/medium clouds are seen over parts of northwest, west, east & northeast and peninsular India.

Weather forecast:

Northwest India: Rain/thundershowers at many places over Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Uttar Pradesh.

Rain/thundershowers at a few places over the rest region during 48 hours and increase thereafter.
hundershowers at a few places over the region.

Northeast India: Rain/thundershowers at a few places over the region during 48 hours and increase thereafter.

South India: Rain/thundershowers at a few places over the region.

West India: Rain/thundershowers at many places over Coastal Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Rain/thundershowers at many places over interior Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh during next 48 hours and decrease thereafter.

Rain/thundershowers at a few places over Tamilnadu during next 48 hours and isolated thereafter.

Central India: Rain/thundershowers at many places over Konkan & Goa, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada.

Rain/thundershowers at a few places over the rest region.

Northwest India: Rain/thundershowers at many places over Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha.

Rain/thundershowers at a few places over Chhattisgarh during next 48 hours and increase thereafter.