Report

Conditions are becoming favorable for advance of southwest monsoon over India's south coast and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal during next 3-4 days. An extended outlook valid until Saturday said that rain or thundershowers would expand coverage to many places over Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Significantly, this would also be the time when the plains of north-west India would likely witness delayed development of heat wave conditions.

The upper air cyclonic circulation in lower levels over Bihar and neighbourhood persists. A trough from this system extends upto south Tamilnadu across Andhra Pradesh with an embedded cyclonic circulation over Orissa and neighbourhood.

Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Jammu & Kashmir and at one or two places over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during next 48 hours. West Bengal & Sikkim, Orissa and Chhattisgarh along with northeastern states may also witness rains.

Dust storms/thunderstorms would occur at one or two places over plains of northwest India during next 48 hours.

Rise in temperatures over plains of northwest India with chances of development of heat wave conditions.