The Monsoon is coming: Likely to hit Andamans, Odisha in 48 hours

India’s sweltering days are hopefully numbered, with the monsoon likely to hit parts of India in the next 48 hours.

Rain and thundershower are likely to lash many parts of coastal Odisha andAndaman- Nicobar islands in the next 2 days.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the cyclone ‘Mahasen’, that has formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal, would be hitting the islands, and that would result in the advancement of monsoon in the Andaman Seas within the next few days.

The cyclonic storm over the south-east Bay of Bengal moved northwards and lay centred near latitude 13.50 N and longitude 85.50 E, about 760 km south of the port town of Paradip, the Centre said.

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“The storm will move northwards during the next 12 hours and thereafter recurve towards Bangladesh-Myanmar coast. We are monitoring the state and movement of the storm,” SB Gaonkar, scientist at the IMD told the media.

The IMDhas also issued a thunder squall warning for East and North-East India as Mahasen clambers in and changes course just to the South towards Bangladesh.

Thunder squalls could break out over Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura during next two days, reported Business Line.

As a precaution, collectors of the coastal and nearby districts were asked to closely watch the situation and keep field functionaries on alert to meet any situation, official sources said. The coastal districts put on alert by the government are Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak, Balasore, Khordha, Cuttack, Jajpur and Mayurbhanj

The monsoon’s timely arrival and distribution is as critical as the total amount of rain for India’s agriculture, where most farmland is rain-fed. India is expecting normal monsoon rains this year.