This year, the annual southwest monsoon is expected to arrive in Telangana in five days’ time by June 20 and is expected to pick up strength from June 21. In course of the next few days, good rains could be expected towards the first week of July and well into August second week, said scientists at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) here on Wednesday.
The very severe cyclone ‘Biparjoy’ across the Arabian Sea and battering the west coast has had no major impact on the monsoon arrival though there has been a delay by about 10 to 11 days as the usual time for the rains to descend here is between June 8 and 10 when it works the way upwards starting from Kerala.
Scientists pointed out this is not the first time that there has been a delay in the onset of the monsoon as it had previously happened in 2020 itself. The forecasting models of the IMD have given sufficient evidence to show that there could be a normal monsoon this year. While the day temperatures are likely to come down after three days, till then citizens may have to endure the heat wave conditions in most parts of the State.
