Team Herald
PANJIM: After missing out its normal date of June 5 for monsoon onset over Goa coast, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued yellow colour warning with possibility of heavy rains till June 12.
The southwest monsoon had set in over Kerala on May 29, three days ahead of its usual date of June 1. On May 31, it had reached Karwar, the southern border of Goa and failed to advance thereafter.
“Northern limit of monsoon (NLM) getting stagnant for a while at Karwar for a few days before reaching Goa hasn’t been any abnormal scenario if we consider monsoon advance from the year 2001 onwards,” IMD Goa in charge Rahul said.
He said that there have been nine such years, including this year, when the delay from Karwar to Goa has been five days or more. “In last 22 years, the longest such delay was in the year 2007, when NLM remained at Karwar for 16 days, whereas it was nine days in 2016,” Rahul explained.
