Hopes of early monsoon withers
VISAKHAPATNAM: Hopes of the southwest monsoon arriving in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana this week have evaporated into thin air as moisuture in the atmosphere here has been sucked by a depression that has formed over the Arabian sea.
Consequently, the much-awaited rain and relief from the sweltering heat will be delayed by at least 10 days, according to meteorological department officials.
In the meantime, there's more bad news for coastal Andhra as the heatwave conditions are going to prevail in the next 24 hours albeit with a likelihood of isolated rains with thundershowers during the next 48 hours. The southwest monsoon, already delayed by five days, is now expected to enter Andhra Pradesh by the third week of this month.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the southwest monsoon has entered Tamil Nadu but has not been active.
However, the Cyclone Warning Centre said the trough of low pressure from Chhattisgargh to South Tamil Nadu covering Coastal Andhra Pradesh is still continuing.
The CWC said isolated rains with thundershowers will occur in coastal Andhra during the next 48 hours and added the heatwave will continue for the next 24 hours.
According to the IMD calendar, the southwest monsoon has to enter Andhra Pradesh at Nellore in the first week of this month. 'Cool climate with moisture is needed to attract the monsoon.
But a depression in the Arabian sea has attracted the moisture from the atmosphere here leaving behind dry wind which doesn't cooperate with the monsoon and let it in,' said a scientist of CWC.
This is the first time in five years that conditions unfavourable to attract the monsoon had developed, he added. Right from the starting point at the Andamans, the southwest monsoon has not been much active this time.
'Though it has entered Kerala, it's been moving at a snail's pace. It will take another 10 days for it to completely spread over Andhra Pradesh,' he said.
News Posted: 11 June, 2014
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