DIMAPUR — The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rain in the north-eastern states, including Nagaland over the next few days.
An update from IMD informed that cyclonic circulation over northeast Assam and a north-south trough runs from north Bihar to southern parts of Gangetic West Bengal in lower tropospheric levels.
This, it said, is likely bring ‘widespread light to moderate rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds (30-40 kmph) over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the next five days’.
“Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall very likely over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Assam and Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh during 17th-21st; Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura during 17th-19th,” it said, adding that isolated extremely heavy rainfall is expected over Assam, Meghalaya and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal during the same period.
It also predicted isolated exceptionally heavy rainfall over Meghalaya on June 18 and isolated extremely heavy rainfall in Arunachal Pradesh on the following day.
The IMD also forecast rainfall in other states including Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over the next few days, while stating that conditions are favourable for further advance of the Southwest Monsoon in several states.