Goa: Last 20 days have seen below-normal rainfall, says IMD

PANAJI: Rainfall activity over Goa has been below its normal value for the past 20 days, according to observations of the India meteorological department (IMD). This has been the season’s lowest state average cumulative rainfall so far.
“The state average cumulative rainfall has been only 1% higher than normal this season compared to last year, which was 24% higher than normal,” IMD scientist Rahul M said.
Goa had a prolonged weak monsoon spell or break-like situation from July 24 due to the absence of monsoon enhancing systems like offshore troughs and circulations.
Meteorologist M R Ramesh Kumar said that the monsoon has weakened over Goa due to the movement of the monsoon trough to the north of the mean position, absence of offshore trough off the west coast of India from Kerala to Maharashtra and the absence of any convective systems such as a depression or deep depression till now, in the Arabian Sea or Bay of Bengal.
Currently, there is a circulation over the central Bay of Bengal off the coast of Odisha. There is a possibility of the movement of that system towards the west-northwest direction owing to which there is a possibility that Goa may experience a comparatively higher rainfall activity over the coming days.
On August 17 and 18, there is a possibility of heavy rainfall exceeding 6cms in 24 hours over one or two places over Goa.