Monsoon All Set To Enter Bengal at This Weekend

Kolkata: According to the India Meteorological Department, monsoon has reached north Bengal on Tuesday and is making a speedy arrival to the southern parts of the state. The weatherman said that the city will get a rainy weekend and thus this year’s monsoon will come to the state. EXIN Times sources said that the monsoon wind was struck over the Bay of Bengal for last five days, but yesterday morning it covered the Northeast and the north Bengal districts of Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and parts of Darjeeling.

The Deputy Director General of Indian Meteorological Department has asserted: “We expect the northern limit of the monsoon to reach Calcutta, along with the rest of south Bengal, between Saturday and Sunday.” “The city and adjoining areas will get sporadic rain till the arrival of the monsoon,” he added. However, the city and neighboring parts of Gangetic west Bengal has experienced heavy rainfall in the last-48-hours.

As EXIN Times sources has reported, the monsoon rains are heavier and frequent if compared to pre-monsoon rains. Pre-monsoon showers are a result of thunderstorm, while monsoon downpour is caused by monsoon winds. The city is experiencing pre-monsoon rains since the start of June. An senior officer of IMD stated that the early morning showers on Tuesday was a typical pre-monsoon shower that ended the sultry first week of June.

Reports are that the Met Office, apart from forecasting heavy rains in this weekend also had mentioned a cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal and are likely to form this Friday. The weather department has said that -maximum temperature was 30-degrees Celsius on Tuesday, four notches below normal more than Monday's maximum. The maximum temperature might rise but would stay around the normal mark of 34 degrees this week.