Monsoon nearing UP, predicts weatherman

Weather turned pleasant late on Saturday evening with strong gusty winds carrying moisture sweeping the city. Some parts of the state were also lashed by thunder showers. Though climate was hot and humid, skies remained cloudy during the day. All this indicated that the monsoon is drawing closer to UP.

The Met department forecast also said that conditions were favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon into some more parts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, in remaining parts of Orissa, West Bengal and Sikkim and some more parts of Jharkhand, Bihar, east UP in next two to three days (June 29-30).

Weatherman has also predicted thundershowers in northwest India including east UP and Rajasthan on Sunday. These areas have been experiencing heat wave conditions so far. The maximum temperature in Lucknow on Saturday was 40.2 degrees Celsius, two degrees above normal, but strong winds turned the weatherpleasant in the evening.

The normal date of monsoon arrival in UP is June 15 but this year it has been delayed by a fortnight. People reeling under hot and humid weather conditions also fear drought like conditions, in case monsoon is delayed further or does not produce enough rains in July and August to compensate for the loss in June.

Chennai - Going to be another clear day to start, cloudy afternoon and mild showers after 4 pm... temperature will be around 37 deg.

Chennai - All time high for June was 43.3 C (3.6.1948)

Massive pre-monsoon showers over central (M.P) and North-north-east (U.P) India.. http://ping.fm/ePE9Z

(cont..).. This only mean that monsoon is pushing into central India. Full of western coast and south Gujarat is getting good monsoon shower

http://ping.fm/4xMNm ... latest sat shot shows.. Super pre-monsoon over central Madhyapradesh, South Uttar pradesh and Rajasthan.

Chennai - Mild sprinkles in Saidapet, while Madipakkam and south-west suburbs started receiving mild passing showers. It's like monsoon here

Chennai - Another round of light rain coming up from south-west..with nice cold winds... it's a great saturday evening.

Chennai - recorded a LOW of the month 36.9°C (12:38pm) today.!

Chennai - Getting reports of RAIN in southern suburbs of chennai. A rain shower is moving over south-west and southern suburbs.