Kochi: The MET department has announced that the South-West monsoon is very likely to set in over Kerala by Thursday. In a release on Tuesday, the department said in view of the strengthening of cross equatorial flow and deepening of westerlies over Southern parts of the Arabian Sea and development of feeble off-shore trough along Karnataka-Kerala Coast, SouthWest monsoon is very likely to set in over Kerala by June 9.
The IMD had on Monday said that conditions continue to remain favourable for the onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala in next 48 hours, marking the start of rainy season in the country. The IMD had earlier said that monsoon should hit the Kerala coast on June 7, with an error margin of plus or minus four days.
Several parts of Kerala are already witnessing heavy rains. The IMD has also made a forecast of ‘heavy’ to ‘very heavy’ rain at isolated places over coastal Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.
