Monsoon likely to break over Kerala on Tuesday

Thiruvananthapuram: The southwest monsoon is likely to break over Kerala on Tuesday, the IMD announced on Monday evening. With good rains lashing Kerala on Monday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its evening statement in Thiruvanathapuram, said the present meteorological conditions indicate that conditions are favourable for onset of

Simultaneously, the onset is also likely over Lakshadweep, coastal Karnataka, some parts of Tamil Nadu and most parts of northeastern states in the next 24 hours, said the IMD.

The onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala signals the arrival of monsoon over the Indian subcontinent and represents beginning of rainy season in the region.The forecasts of the monsoon onset issued during the past 12 years (2005-2016) were proved to be correct every year except 2015.

Meanwhile, cyclonic storm Mora over Bay of Bengal was 660 km south­-southeast of Kolkata and would cross Bangladesh's Chittagong on Tuesday.IMD also predicts rough to very-rough sea conditions along Andaman Islands and along the West Begal coast on Tuesday, May 30.

"Between June 3 to June 5, rain and thundershowers are very likely at many places over Kerala, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and northeastern states; at a few places
over east India and east Madhya Pradesh; at isolated places over rest of the country outside west India," it said.

About the national capital and regions around it, IMD predicts scattered rains till Friday, June 2."For Delhi, there would be on and off pre-monsoon showers. By the end of June, the monsoon would formally reach Delhi and Haryana according to the current weather pattern," it said.