Waiting for the monsoon! Here it comes

Here are some good and bad news. Monsoon would be on time and would hit the Kerala coast in the next 3-4 days as the conditions are favourable, however, it would not provide any respite from the scorching heat to people across north and central India. Currently, temperatures across most parts of the country were recorded 5 degrees Celsius above the average temperatures.

A slight respite is expected from the dry and hot westerly winds in the northern India from May 30 with forecast of thunderstorm, dust storm and rainfall.
"Conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon over the next few days. Monsoon will hit the Kerala coast by May 30," DS Pai, head, long range forecast, India Meteorological Department, told the Economic Times.
According to the Met office, conditions were conducive for the advancement of monsoon into Arabian sea, Maldives, Comorin area and some more parts of Bay of Bengal during next two days.
GP Sharma, V-P-meteorology, Skymet Weather Services, said: "The monsoon progress has been stuck till Hambantota in Sri Lanka and Bay of Bengal since the past few days. In the next 24-48 hours we can expect it to pick up," he said.
Moreover, light rain and thunder showers continue to lash the southern part of India apart from the coastal belts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
The monsoon would set in after 60% of the available 14 stations across Kerala, Karnataka, Sri Lanka and Lakshadweep would report rainfall of 2.5 mm or more for two consecutive days, the weather office said.
But people across north and central India would not get any relief from the hot winds till the weekend. "Heat wave conditions will continue with temperature 2-7 degree above normal over most parts of the country. Under the influence of a western disturbance, we can expect some light spell of rains along with thunderstorm over north India," said Sharma.
People should be better prepared to face severe heat wave conditions in coming days at some places in Odisha, Jharkhand, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, Madhya Pradesh, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Chhattisgarh.
The weather office also forecast fall in day temperatures by about 2°C over Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Vidarbha from May 28 onwards.
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