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North-westerly winds result in prolonged monsoon

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By Our Reporter

 SHILLONG: Monsoon is having a prolonged stay. With the dry northwesterly winds in the Bay of Bengal, it has cut a trough across the Bay which has resulted in two circulations over Assam and Meghalaya in the northeast and another in Southwest in Northern Tamil Nadu. A source from the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) who informed of this phenomenon, said that this has delayed the departure of monsoon from the region. The trough thus created, coupled with an east-west cutoff zone with conflicting winds in the stratosphere over the southern peninsula is causing some peculiar weather conditions in the region. Global weather models indicate that the trough would move towards the coast, thereby bringing more rainfall in the peninsular region. Scattered rain or thundershowers will be experienced in Meghalaya and adjacent states, with fairly widespread rain or thundershower.

With the Southwest monsoon coming to a close with one percent surplus, the RMC source informed that it was amongst the most uniformly spread rainy season in sight for a long time, the largest deficit for any single meteorological subdivisions confined to 32 per cent for Assam and Meghalaya.

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