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.