Monsoon covers nearly 80% of country’s area

Mumbai, Jun 13: Continuing its rapid progress since its onset on June 3, the southwest monsoon on Sunday has now covered nearly 80 per cent of the geographical area of the country within 10 days.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday afternoon said that the monsoon has reached the doorstep of Delhi, where it is most likely to arrive during the next two to three days. The normal dates for the onset of monsoon over Chandigarh and Delhi are June 26 and June 27 respectively. By Sunday, the monsoon has covered the entire Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad and some parts of Haryana, Chandigarh and northern Punjab, covering nearly 80 per cent of the country’s geographical area.
The Northern Limit of Monsoon presently passes through Diu, Surat, Nandurbar, Bhopal, Nowang, Hamirpur, Barabanki, Bareilly, Saharanpur, Ambala and Amritsar.
By the middle of the week, monsoon is expected to cover eastern Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana and remaining Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. “Conditions are favourable for the monsoon to advance further to the remaining parts of the country, except Rajasthan, during the next 48 hours,” the IMD officials said.