Sunday, September 23, 2007

Drenchers return to pound Gujarat-Mumbai belt

Vinson Kurian

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 19 Peak-monsoon circulatory patterns are combining to drench the Gujarat-Mumbai-Konkan belt, their favourite playground, with torrents for one last time.

The proceedings have already been set in motion, with Mumbai and immediate neighbourhood being targeted overnight on Wednesday. But more is to come, what with an upper air cyclonic circulation popping up in the east-central Arabian Sea already.

RAINS FOR NORTHWEST

There is also growing consensus on scattered to widespread rains returning to the parched north and northwest India.

The resident anti-cyclone (clear skies with dry weather) risks the danger of being blown off its moorings at least temporarily.

Monday’s ‘low’ underwent one round of intensification to become well-marked, and has since strolled the west-central Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal Andhra Pradesh.

It will cause fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls over coastal Andhra Pradesh and south Orissa.

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