Monsoon keeps its date with UP, drenches jhansi and lalitpur; rains likely in Lucknow over next 3 days

LUCKNOW: While heat wave conditions abated across the state on Monday, if all goes well, southwest monsoon will keep its date with UP this year. Conditions are favourable for entry of the monsoon into east UP in next 2-3 days, said Met officials on Monday.
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Till 2019, normal monsoon arrival date in UP was June 15, but it was revised to June 18 in 2020 based on studies of 59 years data (1961-2019). The new normal monsoon arrival dates are: Kerala on June 1, UP on June 18 and Lucknow on June 23.
Overcast and cloudy skies with rainfall at isolated places led to a drop in maximum temperatures by 3-10 degrees Celsius across the state. Orai was the hottest with 42.8 degrees Celsius. In the rest of the state, maximum temperatures dropped below 40 degrees Celsius.
Similar conditions will prevail for the next few days.
"There is a western disturbance over Pakistan and a cyclonic circulation over Punjab. Another cyclonic circulation is hovering over Bay Bengal. Further, there has been interaction between moisture laden easterlies and dry westerlies. All these factors have caused change in the weather conditions and made conditions favourable for the advancement of monsoon," said Mohammad Danish, senior scientist at the state Met department.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department, the southwest monsoon has further advanced into some parts of Gujarat; remaining parts of Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra and Telangana; some parts of Madhya Pradesh; some more parts of Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
The northern limit of the monsoon passes through Veraval, Bhavnagar and Vadodara in Gujarat, Khargone in Madhya Pradesh, Amravati in Maharashtra, Durg in Chhattisgarh and Bargarh and Chandbali in Odisha.
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Conditions are favourable for further advance of monsoon over remaining parts of North Arabian Sea; some more parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh; remaining parts of Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Odisha; some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand; remaining parts of Northwest Bay of Bengal, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal; some parts of Bihar and east UP during next 2-3 days.
Meanwhile, the maximum temperature in the city dropped to 35.7 degrees Celsius, 2.3 units below normal, on Monday.
However, the night was warm with a minimum temperature of 29 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal.
On Tuesday, the sky will be partly cloudy becoming generally cloudy sky towards evening and night with possibility of light rainfall. The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to be around 35 and 27 degree Celsius, respectively.

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