Monsoon is one of the most-awaited seasons of the year. Every year, the arrival of monsoon becomes the concern of many speculations. Despite countless predictions by the meteorological department, though anyone rarely gets it right!
It mainly starts from somewhere in June to September but it is still a question in north of India that “when would the monsoon reach Delhi?” This question is on everyone’s mind in this region of the country. The monsoon usually runs from the Southwest reaching the coast of the southern state of Kerala in starting of June and usually arrives in Mumbai approximately 10 days later, then reaches Delhi by the end of June but we are in mid of the July and still waiting for monsoon to arrive.
When the Southwest monsoon arrives in India, it breaks into two parts around the mountainous region of the Western Ghats in south-central India. One part proceeds northwards over the Arabian Sea and up the coastal side of the Western Ghats. The other moves to the Bay of Bengal, up through Assam, and smacks the Eastern Himalayan range.
Delhi is still waiting for the rains while various other cities in India are already flooded by the rain. It is important to note that regions like Mumbai receive more rains than others during the monsoon days. Delhi is one of the eight states in India which is reeling under monsoon deficiency this year. It has been a tradition for the capital to depend on the annual monsoon or rains. Weather experts are speculating arrival of monsoons to bring down the rain loss in the next two weeks.
The city is heating day by day and more than 20 million people have left the city at the mercy of long dry spell. The region needs some heavy widespread rain to compensate for the delay in rainfall. Delhi is the second state with higher rain deficiency after the state Manipur. According to one of the officials of the India Meteorological Department, Manipur is the only state with a higher rain deficiency in India approximately 44%. This year’s June has been the wettest in more than a decade. New Delhi is not only the state suffering rain deficiency, but states like Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh is also going through a rainless spell.
Let’s hope for a brighter monsoon in the coming days.
