The Southwest monsoon, which brings seasonal rain to the Indian subcontinent, hit Kerala and the Northeast on Tuesday, two days before its normal onset date.
Director General of the India Meteorological Department KJ Ramesh said monsoon has also hit the North East, thanks to Cyclone Mora, which aided the advancement of the seasonal rainfall.
The early onset of monsoon in India is being aided by cyclone Mora, which has made landfall in Bangladesh on Tuesday.
Simultaneously, the onset is also likely over Lakshadweep, coastal Karnataka, some parts of Tamil Nadu and most parts of northeastern states on Tuesday, said the IMD.
The forecasts of the monsoon onset issued during the past 12 years (2005-2016) were proved to be correct every year except 2015.
IMD also predicts rough to very-rough sea conditions along Andaman Islands and along the West Begal coast on Tuesday.
As per IMD, in past 24 hours, rainfall had occurred at most places over Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, east Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands; at many places over Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh; at a few places over Jammu and Kashmir, Vidarbha in Maharashtra, Gangetic West Bengal and Sikkim, Assam and Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, coastal Karnataka and at isolated places over north Rajasthan, north Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, south interior Karnataka and coastal Andhra Pradesh.
However, no significant change in maximum temperatures over the country are likely during next 23 days, IMD said.
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