PANJIM, JUNE 14
The much-awaited monsoon showers lashed the State early Monday even as the Met Department warned of heavy rains accompanied by strong gusty winds in next 24 hours.
“Rain or thundershowers accompanied by strong gutsy wind would hit parts of the State. Some areas might also witness moderate to heavy rainfall in coming 24 hours”, Indian Meteorological Observatory in-charge K V Singh said.
Predicting a good rainfall in the next two days, Singh said, “though the monsoon arrived late in the State, we expect good showers in coming days”.
Singh confirmed that south-west monsoon had advanced into Goa on June 10 but due to the weakening of monsoon currents, the State could not witness good amount of rainfall at the beginning.
“The currents have now started to intensify. The conditions are favourable for further advancement of monsoon”, he said.
The Met Department recorded 55.7 mm of rainfall in last 24 hours with Pernem receiving the highest amount of rainfall followed by Panjim, Valpoi and Ponda.
With this, the maximum temperature has now fallen to 29.6 degree Celsius while the minimum temperature continued to remain at 24.0 degree Celsius.
