The monsoon managed to break a 20-day-long hiatus after it made an early onset over Kerala on May 24, and has on Monday advanced into remaining parts of north Arabian Sea and Gujarat, even as an incoming western disturbance dug deeper with prospects of animating an existing circulation in the neighbourhood to rustle up a low-pressure area by Tuesday.
This ‘low’ would predate an anticipated counterpart over the eastern parts of country by a few days as the core monsoon activity prepares to shift from West Coast and South Peninsula to Central India, East India and adjoining North-West India this week.
On Monday, the monsoon entered parts of Madhya Pradesh, and had covered entire Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. Thus its northern limit managed to affect a quantum jump to drape itself along Veraval, Bhavnagar, Vadodara, Khargone, Amravati, Durg, Bargarh, Chandbali, Sandhead Island and Balurghat breaking a long hiatus.
