Southwest monsoon delayed further

June 08, 2016 09:40

The onset of southwest monsoon has been delayed further with India Meteorological Department on Tuesday saying rains would hit Kerala coast on June 9.

On May 15, IMD had predicted monsoon would hit Kerala around June 7, a delay of six days from its normal onset.

"In view of the strengthening of cross-equatorial flow and deepening of westerlies over South Arabian Sea and development of feeble offshore trough along Karnataka-Kerala coast, the onset of (southwest) monsoon over Kerala is very likely by June 9," IMD said in its daily bulletin.

A delayed onset of rains is not expected to make much difference to sowing of kharif crops and overall agriculture, if the monsoons movement thereafter is normal.

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