WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: After missing out traditional date of October 14, the Southwest monsoon has finally withdrawn over Goa coast on Saturday.
However, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Goa observatory has predicted that isolated convective activity will continue for the State in the coming two days.
The IMD Goa In-Charge Rahul said that Southwest monsoon has withdrawn over entire Goa on October 23, Saturday.
The monsoon withdrawal over entire country is expected around October 26, as against normal date of October 15.
"With likely setting in of Northeasterly winds in the lower troposphere levels over Bay of Bengal and extreme south Peninsular India, the Southwest monsoon is likely to withdraw from entire country around October 26," he said.
The normal date of monsoon withdrawal for the State is October 14, considering that withdrawal starts from Northwest India by September 17. However, this year, the withdrawal process was delayed and it had commenced from October 6. According to the IMD Goa data, in 2020, the monsoon withdrew from Goa on October 28, the longest in a decade.
Before that in 2019, the monsoon had withdrawn on October 16. In 2018, the withdrawal was on October 25.
The official monsoon season ended on September 30 with six per cent excess rains, this year.
The State recorded 123.5 inches (3,137mm) of rainfall as against the normal average of 116.7 inches (2,965mm). The State has received around 73 per cent of excess post monsoon rains so far.
