The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported a low-pressure area over the west-central and the neighboring northwest Bay of Bengal off the coasts of north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha. The system that formed early Sunday morning under the influence of upper-air cyclonic circulation is likely to strengthen into a depression from Bay of Bengal within 24 hours and shift west-northwestwards. IMD predicts that it is probable that it will pass over the south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts on August 19 forenoon, causing widespread heavy rainfall in many areas.
The weather arrangement in question should bring heavy rains to the state of Goa, Maharashtra (and Mumbai itself), and Gujarat in the seven days to come, with a possibility of very heavy rains. IMD had specifically issued a warning that an extremely heavy downpour will occur in Konkan (including Mumbai), Goa, and the ghat regions of central Maharashtra till August 19 and in Gujarat till August 20. In Saurashtra, the intensity of rainfall is expected to be highest between August 19 and 20, and the rainfall is especially heavy between these two days.
Most parts of the country, such as Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha, are predicted to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall during the next 48 hours as well. IMD stated that isolated very heavy rainfall is probable over coastal Andhra Pradesh between August 17 and 18, and Odisha and Telangana on August 18.
So far, the heaviest rainfall activities would have been seen in the Western Himalayas and foothill states like Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh. This is the present monsoon shift, which is associated with the southernness of the monsoon trough.
Moreover, the low-pressure system that formed itself on Saturday in south Chhattisgarh has now shifted west-northwest and is now over Vidarbha and the surrounding areas. The system is likely to get weaker slowly and pass on 18 morning of August 18 as a remnant cyclonic circulation, that is, over Gujarat.
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