This story is from June 16, 2020

Monsoon arrives in Uttar Pradesh before deadline

Monsoon arrived in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, five days ahead of the deadline set by the India Meterological Department (IMD).
Monsoon arrives in Uttar Pradesh before deadline
Monsoon arrived in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. (File photo)
LUCKNOW: Monsoon arrived in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, five days ahead of the deadline set by the India Meterological Department (IMD).
The currents entered through Ballia - the eastern tip of the state - and were active along some areas bordering Bihar and Chhattisgarh. Conditions are favourable for further advancement of the monsoon into some east UP districts by Wednesday evening, said state Met director JP Gupta.

The currents may reach Gorakhpur and Varanasi in a day or two, followed by Allahabad, and then Kanpur and Lucknow by the weekend. Monsoon rains are expected to be normal this year and is expected to hit the Bundelkhand region by next week.
Now, June 20 new monsoon normal for state, Lucknow
According to IMD, the monsoon line was passing through Kandla and Ahmedabad in Gujarat; Indore, Narsinghpur and Umaria in Madhya Pradesh, and Ballia in UP. Conditions are becoming favourable for further advancement of monsoon into some more parts of east MP and east UP during next 48 hours, it added.
In 2013, monsoon arrived in UP on June 15 and rainfall that year was normal in the four-month season. However, except for 2013, monsoon arrived late in the state in the past decade.

Till 2019, the normal date of monsoon arrival in UP was June 15 and Lucknow June 18. It was based on data of 1901-1940 period from 149 IMD stations. The dates have been revised from this year, based on the data of 1961-2019 period. The new normals for both UP and Lucknow are June 20.
The revision has been done after observing delay in monsoon onset and withdrawal dates and rainfall patterns in different parts of India in nearly five decades. The changes in monsoon activity, said experts, could be because of climate change.
Weather experts say that monsoon advancement was fast this year first because of cyclone Nisarga and then favourable conditions created by cyclonic circulations. On Monday also, a trough — a stream of cyclonic circulation formed due to an extended low pressure area — was running from northwest Rajasthan to Gangetic West Bengal and cyclonic circulation over southeast UP.
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